Author Archives: Martin J. Ball

About Martin J. Ball

I am Martin J. Ball, a professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and I'm interested in all aspects of Clinical Linguistics and Clinical Phonetics. I am the founder editor of the journal 'Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics'.

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 27 (6-7)

Posted on May 18, 2013

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics Volume 27, Number 6-7 (July 2013) Special Issue: Proceedings of the 14th Meeting of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association: 2 Editorial Alice Lee and Fiona Gibbon Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics July, Vol. 27, No. … Continue reading →

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Why, Oh Y?

Posted on May 12, 2013

It’s exam time again – so howlers abound. One of the best (worst?) from yesterday’s undergraduate speech disorders in children exam follows! Asked to list the target phoneme to errored realization in a data set, one student informed me that … Continue reading →

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PhD Scholarship: l’Université catholique de Louvain

Posted on May 7, 2013

PhD scholarship on fluency and disfluency markers in oral French, oral English and ‘langue signée (français de Belgique)’ Subject: [Thèse] appel à candidature : “Fluency and disfluency markers” Pour compléter notre équipe sur le projet “Fluency and disfluency markers. A … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, speech pathology

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics Volume 27, Number 5 (May 2013)

Posted on May 4, 2013

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics Volume 27, Number 5 (May 2013)   The impact of extrinsic demographic factors on Cantonese speech acquisition Carol K. S. To, Pamela S. P. Cheung, and Sharynne Mcleod Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, Vol. 27, No. 5: … Continue reading →

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ELEVENTH OLD WORLD CONFERENCE IN PHONOLOGY (OCP 11)

Posted on May 2, 2013

ELEVENTH OLD WORLD CONFERENCE IN PHONOLOGY (OCP 11)  Link for abstract submission: http://linguistlist.org/confservices/customhome.cfm?emeetingid=5102JA4458BE425A40A050441 Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL), Meertens Instituut Amsterdam 22-25 JANUARY 2014 Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2013 First call for papers: 29 April 2013 Second call … Continue reading →

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Seventh Christian Benoît Award

Posted on April 24, 2013

Seventh Christian Benoît Award **********Deadline has been postponed to May 20, 2013******* The Christian Benoît Award is delivered periodically by the Association Christian Benoit (**). It is given to promising young scientists in the domain of SPEECH and FACE-TO-FACE COMMUNICATION. … Continue reading →

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Phonetically balanced passages – the north wind and the sun?

Posted on April 19, 2013

Since my original request for phonetically balanced passages in languages other than English, I have received several messages suggesting the use of the North Wind and the Sun story. This exists in many languages, as popularized by the publications of … Continue reading →

Posted in Clinical Linguistics, Clinical Phonetics, phonetics

Features in Phonology, Morphology, Syntax and Semantics: What are they?

Posted on April 17, 2013

Call for papers: Features in Phonology, Morphology, Syntax and Semantics: What are they? University of Tromsø/CASTL Date: 31 October and 1 November 2013 Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 June 2013 Organizers/contact: Martin Krämer, Peter Svenonius Conference email: features@hsl.uit.no Conference … Continue reading →

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10th International Seminar on Speech Production – ISSP 2014

Posted on April 12, 2013

We are pleased to announce the 10th International Speech Production Seminar, which will take place in Cologne from 5th to 8th May 2014. This international meeting was launched in 1988 in Grenoble, with the aim of providing an interdisciplinary forum … Continue reading →

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Postdocs at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh

Posted on April 8, 2013

Queen Margaret University PhD bursaries 2013. For 2013 entry, one studentship has been made available by QM for competitive application as part of investment in this flagship area. Deadline is 30 April 2013 – see http://www.qmu.ac.uk/post_research/bursarycomp.htm for full details. We particularly … Continue reading →

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