This comprehensive collection equips readers with a state-of-the-art description of clinical phonetics and a practical guide on how to employ phonetic techniques in disordered speech analysis.

Martin J. Ball is an honorary professor of linguistics at Bangor University, Wales, having previously held positions in Wales, Ireland, the US, and Sweden. He formerly co-edited Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics and co-edits the Journal of Multilingual and Bilingual Speech, as well as book series for Multilingual Matters and Equinox Publishers. He is an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, and a fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.

Part I Foundations of clinical phonetics

1. Articulatory phonetics for the speech clinician - Joan Rahilly and Orla Lowry

2. Acoustic phonetics for the speech clinician - Ioannis Papakyritsis

3. Auditory phonetics for the speech clinician - Elena Babatsouli

4. Perceptual phonetics for the speech clinician - Esther Janse and Toni Rietveld

5. Suprasegmental phonetics - Orla Lowry

6. An Introduction to speech disorders - Martin J. Ball

Part II Variationist clinical phonetics

7. Clinical phonetics across languages and dialects - Barbara M. Bernhardt and Joseph Paul Stemberger

8. Cultural and multilingual sources of phonetic variation: Implications for clinical practice - Robert Allen Fox and Ewa Jacewicz

9. Stylistic variation in misarticulations - Martin J. Ball, Orla Lowry, and Lisa McInnis

10. Analyzing phonetic data with generalized additive mixed models - Yu-Ying Chuang, Janice Fon, Ioannis Papakyritsis, and Harald Baayen

Part III Phonetic transcription

11. The nature of phonetic transcription - Catia Cucchiarini and Helmer Strik

12. The IPA - Michael Ashby and Patricia Ashby

13. Transcribing disordered speech - Martin J. Ball

14. Teaching and learning clinical phonetic transcription - Jill Titterington and Sally Bates

15. Transcribing: By target or by realization? - Martin J. Ball

16. Examples of narrow phonetic transcription in disordered speech - Martin J. Ball, Nicole Müller, Marie Klopfenstein, and Ben Rutter

Part IV Instrumentation

Preliminaries

17. The nature of phonetic instrumentation - Nicola Bessell

18. Recording speech: Methods and formats - Adam P. Vogel and Hannah Reece

19. The PhonBank database within TalkBank, and a practical overview of the Phon program - Yvan Rose and Gregory J. Hedlund

Instrumental analysis of articulatory phonetics

20. Electromyography -Jennifer M. Vojtech and Cara E. Stepp

21. Speech aerometry - David J. Zajac

22. Laryngoscopy and stroboscopy - Duy Duong Nguyen, Catherine Madill, Antonia Chacon, and Daniel Navakovic

23. Electrolaryngography/electroglottography - Chiara Celata and Irene Ricci

24. Nasometry - Tim Bressmann

25. Electropalatography - Alice Lee

26. Electromagnetic articulography - Pascal van Lieshout

27. Magnetic resonance imaging - Vikram Ramanarayanan and Christina Hagedorn

28. Video tracking in speech - Christian Kroos

29. Ultrasound tongue imaging - Joanne Cleland

Instrumental analysis of acoustic, auditory, and perceptual phonetics

30. Sound spectrography - Chiara Meluzzi

31. Pure tone audiometry and speech audiometry - Fei Zhao and Robert Mayr

32. Altered sensory feedback in speech - Liam Barrett and Peter Howell

33. Dichotic listening - Mária Gósy and Ruth Huntley Bahr

34. Perceptual phonetic experimentation - Grant McGuire

Speech recognition and speech synthesis

35. Automatic speech recognition in the assessment of child speech - Loridana Buttigieg, Helen Grech, Simon G. Fabri, James Attard, and Philip Farrugia

36. Clinical applications of speech synthesis - Martine Smith and John Costello