Methods in Clinical Phonetics

by Ball, Martin J.; Lowry, Orla

• ISBN13: 9781861561848
• ISBN10: 1861561849
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-10
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

This book is written for the beginning student of communication disorders with a basic understanding of phonetics, or the practising speech-language therapist whose phonetic training may need updating. It introduces the reader to the main areas of phonetics, and the main methods through which the phonetician reduces speech data to a permanent record. The book, then, illustrates the three main approaches to the investigation of spoken language; articulatory, acoustic, and auditory. Further, it describes how impressionistic phonetic transcription through symbolisation differs from instrumental phonetic techniques. For each of these areas of discussion, chapters are provided that examine the general phonetic aspects, followed by chapters that illustrate their application to clinical data. The authors are both phoneticians with experience of investigating both normal and disordered speech through both impressionistic and instrumental means, and this is the first book in this market that describes a whole range of data reduction techniques and illustrates them with data relevant to the student and practitioner of communication disorders.

Author Biography

Martin J. Ball is Hawthorne-BoRSF Endowed Professor and Director of the Hawthorne Center for Research in Communicative Disorders at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His books include Clinical Sociolinguistics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2005), and Phonetics for Communication Disorders and Critical Concepts in Clinical Linguistics.

Orla Lowry is the author of Methods in Clinical Phonetics, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Series Preface	ix
Introduction	xi
What is Clinical Phonetics?	1	(9)
Transcribing Phonetic Data	10	(15)
Transcribing Disordered Speech	25	(16)
Articulatory Instrumentation	41	(8)
Articulatory Analysis of Disordered Speech	49	(12)
Acoustic Instrumentation	61	(12)
Acoustic Analysis of Disordered Speech	73	(15)
Auditory and Perceptual Instrumentation	88	(11)
Auditory and Perceptual Analysis of Disordered Speech	99	(11)
The Future of Clinical Phonetics	110	(11)
References	121	(10)
Appendix
The International Phonetic Alphabet	127	(1)
The Extensions to the International Phonetic Alphabet	128	(1)
The VoQS Voice Quality Symbols	129	(2)
Index	131