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Monthly Archives: October 2011
The ‘r-survey’ – question 6
Question 6 attempts to unpack the responses from Question 5. The first part of the question asks which tongue position proved more successful if the respondent had used more than one with clients. The following bar-chart illustrates the answers: This shows apical … Continue reading
Posted in Clinical Phonetics, speech pathology
Forthcoming book 2: Language and Speech Disorders series
Applying English Grammatical Analysis Clinical Language Assessment and Intervention By Lixian Jin, and Martin Cortazzi. Published September 2012 by Psychology Press more information about Applying English Grammatical Analysis Price: $75.00 $67.50 Hardback: 350 pages Published: October 2012 ISBN: 978-1-84872-907-0 Publisher: … Continue reading
Posted in Clinical Linguistics
Forthcoming book 1: Language and Speech Disorders series
Electropalatography for Speech Assessment and Intervention By Sharynne McLeod, Sara E. Wood and William J. Hardcastle. Published September 2012 by Psychology Press more information about Electropalatography for Speech Assessment and Intervention Price: $69.95 $62.96 Hardback: 176 pages Published: October 2012 … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Clinical Linguistics, Clinical Phonetics
Zaneta Mok’s doctoral defense
Applied Language and Speech Science doctoral student Zaneta Mok defended her dissertation yesterday at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in our department of Communicative Disorders. Zaneta’s dissertation was titled ‘ The linguistic construction of interpersonal processes among people with … Continue reading
Posted in University of Louisiana at Lafayette
The newest IPA symbol
The newest IPA symbol is that for the labiodental flap. Although the newest, it was in fact adopted back in 2005. It’s described in Wikipedia as “a speech sound found primarily in languages of Central Africa, such as Kera and … Continue reading
Posted in Clinical Phonetics, speech pathology
New ‘llafariad’ is but old ‘bogal’ writ large
(With apologies to John Milton.*) When studying Welsh linguistics and phonetics (as I did, for example, for my doctoral dissertation), one learns the Welsh words for a range of linguistic and phonetic terms. The word for ‘vowel’ in Welsh is … Continue reading
Posted in phonetics, Welsh - Cymraeg
Communication Sciences and Disorders: An Introduction to the Professions
Communication Sciences and Disorders An Introduction to the Professions By Dale F. Williams Few activities can match the complexity of human communication. Given its intricacy, it is understandable that the process will not always work properly. When it doesn’t, the … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, speech pathology
The ‘r-survey’ – question 5
In many ways Question 5 was the most important one for me. I was most interested in this survey in which tongue shape (apical/retroflex or molar/bunched) therapists used in teaching /r/ to clients with /r/ problems. The choice open to … Continue reading
Posted in Clinical Phonetics, speech pathology
More pictures from Anatolia
Today, some of the interesting landscape features.
Posted in Clinical Linguistics
Pictures from Anatolia
This weekend some pictures from our trips to archaeological sites near Eskişehir when we visited Anadolu University.
Posted in Other
