Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors vii

1 Linguistics, Phonetics, and Speech-Language Pathology: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics 1
Nicole Müller and Martin J. Ball

2 Research Ethics 10
Thomas W. Powell

3 Experimental and Quasi-experimental Research in Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics 28
Vesna Mildner

4 The Investigation of Speech Production: Experimental and Quasi-experimental Approaches 48
B. May Bernhardt, Penelope Bacsfalvi, Marcy Adler-Bock, Geetanjalee Modha, and Barbara Purves

5 Investigating Disordered Language: Experimental and Quasi-experimental Approaches 63
Judith D. Oxley

6 Qualitative Research in Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics 87
Nicole Müller

7 An Ethnographic Approach to Assessing Communication Success in Interactions Involving Adults with Developmental Delay 107
Jacqueline Guendouzi and Paula S. Currie

8 Conversation Analysis Applied to Disordered Speech and Language 126
Scott Barnes and Alison Ferguson

9 Clinical Sociolinguistics 146
Martin J. Ball and Louise Keegan

10 The Recording of Audio and Video Data 160
Ben Rutter and Stuart Cunningham

11 Data Processing: Transcriptional and Impressionistic Methods 177
Martin J. Ball, Sara Howard, Nicole Müller, and Angela Granese

12 Data Processing: Digital Analysis of Speech Audio Signals 195
Mark Huckvale

13 Data Processing: Imaging of Speech Data 219
Joan Rahilly

14 Data Analysis and Interpretation: Statistical Methods 253
Eleonora Rossi

15 AphasiaBank: Data and Methods 268
Brian MacWhinney, Davida Fromm, Audrey Holland, and Margaret Forbes

16 Disseminating Research: Reading, Writing, and Publishing 288
Sharynne McLeod

Index 311

About the Author

Nicole Muller is Professor of CommunicativeDisorders at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and holds aHawthorne-BORSF Endowed Professorship. She is co-editor of thejournal Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics and of the bookseries Communication Disorders Across Languages. She is theco-author of Approaches to Discourse in Dementia (with J. A.Guendouzi, Lawrence Erlbaum Association, 2006), editor ofMultilayered Transcription (Plural, 2007), and co-editor ofThe Handbook of Language and Speech Disorders (with J. S.Damico and M. J. Ball, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). Martin J. Ball is Hawthorne-BORSF Endowed Professor atthe University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is co-editor of thejournal Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics and two bookseries: Communication Disorders Across Languages andLanguage and Speech Disorders (with J. S. Damico). Heco-edited The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics (with M.Perkins, N. Muller and S. Howard, Wiley-Blackwell, 2008) andThe Celtic Languages (with N. Muller, Routledge, 2009),and co-wrote Phonology for Communication Disorders (with N.Muller and B. Rutter, Psychology Press, 2010).

Reviews

It offers students and researchers from a variety ofentry points such as linguistics, education, psychology,and speech-language pathology and introduction to the scopeof research in clinical linguistics and phonetics, and a practicalguide to this interdisciplinary field. (ClinicalLinguistics, 28 September 2012)