The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics

by Ball, Martin J.; Perkins, Michael R.; Mü; ller, Nicole; Howard, Sara

• ISBN13: 9781405135221
• ISBN10: 1405135220
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-04-28
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics is an original, in-depth survey of the field for students and practitioners of speech-language pathology, linguistics, psychology, and education. Brings together an international team of contributors to create an original and in-depth survey of this multi-faceted field Explores the field of clinical linguistics: the application of the principles and methods of linguistics to the study of language disability in all its forms Fills a gap in the existing literature, creating the first non-encyclopedic volume to explore this ever-expanding area of linguistic concern and research Includes a range of pathologies, with each section exploring multilingual and cross-linguistics aspects of the field, as well as analytical methods and assessment Describes how mainstream theories and descriptions of language have been influenced by clinical research.

Author Biography

Martin J. Ball is Hawthorne Endowed Professor and Head of the Department of Communicative Disorders at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.


Mick Perkins is Professor of Clinical Linguistics in the Department of Human Communication Sciences at the University of Sheffield, England.


Nicole Muller is Hawthorne-BoRSF Endowed Professor in the Department of Communicative Disorders at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.


Sara Howard is Senior Lecturer in Clinical Phonetics in the Department of Human Communication Sciences at the University of Sheffield.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. viii
Notes on Contributors	p. x
Introduction	p. xxiii
Pragmatics, Discourse, and Sociolinguistics	p. 1
Discourse Analysis and Communication Impairment	p. 3
Conversational Implicature and Communication Impairment	p. 32
Relevance Theory and Communication Disorders	p. 49
Neuropragmatics	p. 61
Pragmatic Impairment as an Emergent Phenomenon	p. 79
Conversation Analysis and Communication Disorders	p. 92
Clinical Sociolinguistics	p. 107
Systemic Functional Linguistics and Communication Impairment	p. 130
Cross-Linguistic and Multilingual Perspectives on Communicative Competence and Communication Impairment: Pragmatics, Discourse, and Sociolinguistics	p. 146
Syntax and Semantics	p. 163
Chomskyan Syntactic Theory and Language Disorders	p. 165
Formulaic Sequences and Language Disorder	p. 184
Syntactic Processing in Developmental and Acquired Language Disorders	p. 198
Morphology and Language Disorder	p. 212
Normal and Pathological Semantic Processing of Words	p. 228
Neural Correlates of Normal and Pathological Language Processing	p. 245
Bilingualism and Language Impairment	p. 261
Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on the Syntax and Semantics of Language Disorders	p. 275
Interfaces between Cognition, Semantics, and Syntax	p. 290
Phonetics and Phonology	p. 309
Instrumental Analysis of Articulation in Speech Impairment	p. 311
Instrumental Analysis of Resonance in Speech Impairment	p. 332
Instrumental Analysis of Phonation	p. 344
Acoustic Analysis of Speech	p. 360
Clinical Phonetic Transcription	p. 381
Comparisons in Perception between Speech and Nonspeech Signals	p. 400
Phonological Analysis, Phonological Processes	p. 412
Constraints-Based Nonlinear Phonological Theories: Application and Implications	p. 423
Optimality Theory: A Clinical Perspective	p. 439
Government Phonology and Speech Impairment	p. 452
Articulatory Phonology and Speech Impairment	p. 467
A Cognitive Approach to Clinical Phonology	p. 480
Neurophonetics	p. 491
Coarticulation and Speech Impairment	p. 506
Vowel Development and Disorders	p. 525
Prosodic Impairments	p. 549
Speech Intelligibility	p. 568
Connected Speech	p. 583
Sociophonetics and Clinical Linguistics	p. 603
Cross-Linguistic Phonological Acquisition	p. 626
Author Index	p. 641
Subject Index	p. 668
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