Monthly Archives: September 2011

New books announced in the CDAL series

The Multilingual Matters book series Communication Disorders across Languages has announced two new books forthcoming in 2011 and 2012. For details see here. We detailed the contents of Multilingual Aspects of Speech Sound Disorders in Children in an earlier post … Continue reading

Posted in Announcements, Clinical Linguistics, Clinical Phonetics

Call for Papers

The Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders has now published two volumes (2010 and 2011) to applause from many. We wish to increase the number of papers in review to ensure the quality of the journal is maintained and … Continue reading

Posted in Clinical Linguistics

The ‘r-survey’ – question 1

Question 1 on the survey was looking for information about where respondents where based and which of the variosu international professional bodies they were registered with. As always with surveys, even though specific examples were given in the question, some … Continue reading

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The ‘r-survey’

On August 22 we blogged about the survey on r-therapy that we had set up on Survey Monkey. The survey recently closed after collecting 200 responses. We are going to be posting some of the results over the next few … Continue reading

Posted in Clinical Phonetics, speech pathology

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 25:10

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics Volume 25, Number 10 (October 2011) Stronger accent following a stroke: The case of a trilingual with aphasia Erika S. Levy, Mira Goral, Catharine Castelluccio De Diesbach, and Franzo Law II Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics October … Continue reading

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ASHA Convention

The 2011 ASHA Convention takes place in San Diego from November 17 – 19. Your bloggers will be in attendance this year, and will be presenting various posters. 8401 Poster Board 297 | Aphasic Nonword Jargon: A View From Phonetics … Continue reading

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Where Do Phonological Features Come From?

 new book information  JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY Details here. Linguistics Where Do Phonological Features Come From? Cognitive, physical and developmental bases of distinctive speech categories Edited by G. Nick Clements and Rachid Ridouane CNRS & Sorbonne-Nouvelle This volume offers a … Continue reading

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The Repository

David Crystal notes on his blog: Long before I began this blog, correspondents were already writing asking how they could get hold of the three texts on clinical language profiling that were developed when I worked at the University of … Continue reading

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Presuppositions from prepositions …!

Recently my attention was drawn to the website of the Oral Motor Institute. We have featured posts on oral motor therapy in our pseudoscience series some weeks ago. The OMI publishes occasional monographs on this topic. The site lays great … Continue reading

Posted in linguistics, Science and Pseudoscience

The inconstant moon … and Queen Jane, approximately

 It’ll soon be that time of year when undergrad phonetics students here will be getting to grips with their first written assignments. I expect again this year to encounter some interesting reinterpretations of phonetic terms! Two all-time favourites are ‘constonants’ … Continue reading

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