Multilingual Aspects of Fluency Disorders

by Howell, Peter; Van Borsel, John

• ISBN13: 9781847693594
• ISBN10: 1847693598
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-05-11
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Summary

This book examines how the diverse forms seen in some of the world¿s languages affect speech development and how this can lead to fl uency disorders. Language in monolingual speakers of different languages is examined as well as specifi c issues that may arise in speakers who speak two or more languages.

Author Biography

Peter Howell is an experimental psychologist and co-director of the Centre for Human Communications at University College London. His research interests are in speech production and perception and hearing.John Van Borsel is a neurolinguist teaching at the Ghent University (Belgium) and at the Veiga Almeida University in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Fluency disorders are one of his main research domains.

Table of Contents

Section One: Procedures, methods and findings for language and its disorders

Chap 1 Annick De Houwer. The speech of fluent child bilinguals

Chap 2 Ineke Mennen. Speech production in simultaneous and sequential bilinguals

Chap 3 Katharina Dworzynski. Genetics and language

Chap 4 Kate E. Watkins and Denise Klein. Brain structure and function in developmental stuttering and bilingualism

Section Two: Monolingual language diversity and stuttering

Chap 5 Peter Howell and Sarah Rusbridge. The speech and language characteristics of developmental stuttering in English speakers

Chap 6 Akira Ujihira. Stuttering in Japanese

Chap 7 Jennifer B. Watson, Courtney T. Byrd, Edna J. Carlo. Disfluent speech characteristics of monolingual Spanish-speaking children

Chap 8 Hamid Karimi and Reza Nilipour. Characteristics of developmental stuttering in Iran.

Chap 9 Mônica de Britto Pereira. Stuttering research in Brazil: an overview

Chap 10 Anne-Marie Simon. A survey on traditional treatment practices for stuttering in Sub-Saharan Africa

Section Three: Bilingual language diversity, stuttering and its treatment

Chap 11 John Van Borsel Review of research on the relationship between bilingualism and stuttering.

Chap 12 Valerie P. C. Lim and Michelle Lincoln. Stuttering in English-Mandarin Bilinguals in Singapore.

Chap 13 Pei-Tzu Tsai, Valerie P. C. Lim, Shelley B. Brundage, and Nan Bernstein Ratner. Linguistic analysis of stuttering in bilinguals: Methodological challenges and solutions.

Chap 14 Rosalee C. Shenker. Treating bilingual stuttering in early childhood: Clinical Updates and Applications

Chap 15 Patricia M. Roberts. Methodology matters Conclusions

Chap 16 Peter Howell and John Van Borsel. Fluency disorders and language diversity: Lessons learned and future directions