SubjectsLinguistics / Language disorders & speech pathology
Book series
ISSN 0925-0123
Studies in Speech Pathology and Clinical Linguistics
Edited by Martin J. Ball and Raymond D. Kent
ISSN 0927-1813
Virtual Reality in Inclusive Language Learning: Enhancing vocabulary acquisition for dyslexic university students
Giulia Staggini
This monograph offers a timely and original contribution to applied linguistics by bringing into dialogue second language acquisition, inclusive language learning, and immersive technologies. The volume addresses a persistent gap in current research by focusing on specific language needs and… read more[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 23] 2026. xiii, 323 pp. + index
Multilingual Acquisition and Learning: An ecosystemic view to diversity
Edited by Elena Babatsouli
The volume espouses an ecosystemic standpoint on multilingual acquisition and learning, viewing language development and use as both ontogenesis and phylogenesis. Multilingualism is inclusively used to refer to sociolinguistic diversity and pluralism. Whether speech, writing, gesture, or body… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 67] 2024. ix, 645 pp.
Developmental Profiles in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Theoretical and methodological implications
Silvia Silleresi
This book presents the current state of knowledge and recent advances on three topics in research on Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): the (debated) existence of profiles of abilities, the role of bilingualism, and the impact of interactive technologies. It includes six chapters that cover: a review… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 68] 2023. xxi, 265 pp.
Cognitive Aphasiology – A Usage-Based Approach to Language in Aphasia
Rachel Hatchard
Aphasia is the most common acquired language disorder in adults, resulting from brain damage, usually stroke. This book firstly explains how aphasia research and clinical practice remain heavily influenced by rule-based, generative theory, and summarizes key shortcomings with this approach.… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 31] 2021. xx, 311 pp.
Language Impairment in Multilingual Settings: LITMUS in action across Europe
Edited by Sharon Armon-Lotem and Kleanthes K. Grohmann
COST Action IS0804 “Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society: Linguistic Patterns and the Road to Assessment” aimed to profile bilingual specific language impairment (biSLI) by establishing a network for research on the linguistic and cognitive abilities of bilingual children with SLI across… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 29] 2021. vi, 333 pp.
Current Perspectives on Child Language Acquisition: How children use their environment to learn
Edited by Caroline F. Rowland, Anna L. Theakston, Ben Ambridge and Katherine E. Twomey
In recent years the field has seen an increasing realisation that the full complexity of language acquisition demands theories that (a) explain how children integrate information from multiple sources in the environment, (b) build linguistic representations at a number of different levels, and (c)… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 27] 2020. ix, 330 pp.
Typical and Impaired Processing in Morphosyntax
Edited by Vincent Torrens
The present volume presents research on language processing and language disorders. Topics range across typical language processing, child developmental language disorders, adult neurodegenerative disorders and neurological bases of typical or impaired brains. The chapters cover a number of… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 64] 2020. vi, 305 pp.
Atypical Language Development in Romance Languages
Edited by Eva Aguilar-Mediavilla, Lucía Buil-Legaz, Raúl López-Penadés, Victor A. Sanchez-Azanza and Daniel Adrover-Roig
This book presents a range of ongoing studies on atypical language development in Romance languages. Despite the steady increase in the number of studies on typical language development, there is still little research about atypical language development, especially in Romance languages. This book… read more
Specific Language Impairment: Current trends in research
Edited by Stavroula Stavrakaki
This volume is dedicated to the field of Specific Language Impairment (SLI), addressing important research questions, including: the interrelation of genetic and cognitive profiles of individuals with SLI; the comorbidity issue and clinical boundaries between SLI and other developmental disorders;… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 58] 2015. ix, 327 pp.
Communication in Autism
Edited by Joanne Arciuli and Jon Brock
Communication in Autism adopts a multidisciplinary approach to explore one of the most common developmental disorders associated with communication impairment. Perhaps the most fascinating thing about communication in autism is that variation is as extreme as it could possibly be. While some… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 11] 2014. vi, 275 pp.
Developmental Theory and Language Disorders
Edited by Paul Fletcher and Jon F. Miller
The chapters in this volume arise from presentations at a unique conference on typical and atypical language development held in Madison, USA in 2002. This joint meeting of the International Association for the Study of Child Language, and the Symposium for Research in Child Language Disorders… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 4] 2005. x, 217 pp.
Williams Syndrome across Languages
Edited by Susanne Bartke and Julia Siegmüller
Williams Syndrome (WS), aka Williams Beuren Syndrome, is a developmental disorder that we have known about for some forty years. The cause for WS was detected only recently: a micro deletion on chromosome 7, more specifically at the region of chromosome 7q11.23. The cognitive and behavioral profile… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 36] 2004. xvi, 385 pp.
English Language Learning and Technology: Lectures on applied linguistics in the age of information and communication technology
Carol A. Chapelle
This book explores implications for applied linguistics of recent developments in technologies used in second language teaching and assessment, language analysis, and language use. Focusing primarily on English language learning, the book identifies significant areas of interplay between technology… read more
Clinical Linguistics: Theory and applications in speech pathology and therapy
Edited by Elisabetta Fava
This book covers different aspects of speech and language pathology and it offers a fairly comprehensive overview of the complexity and the emerging importance of the field, by identifying and re-examining, from different perspectives, a number of standard assumptions in clinical linguistics and in… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 227] 2002. xxiv, 353 pp.
The L2 Acquisition of Tense–Aspect Morphology
Edited by M. Rafael Salaberry and Yasuhiro Shirai
The present volume provides a cross-linguistic perspective on the development of tense-aspect in L2 acquisition. Data-based studies included in this volume deal with the analysis of a wide range of target languages: Chinese, English, Italian, French, Japanese, and Spanish. Theoretical frameworks… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 27] 2002. x, 489 pp.
Pedagogical Norms for Second and Foreign Language Learning and Teaching: Studies in honour of Albert Valdman
Edited by Susan M. Gass, Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, Sally Magnan Pierce and Joel Walz
The concept of Pedagogical Norm is grounded in both sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic principles. Pedagogical norms guide the selection and sequencing of target language features for language teaching and learning. This book both situates and expands on this concept highlighting the interaction… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 5] 2002. vi, 305 pp.
Pragmatics in Speech and Language Pathology: Studies in clinical applications
Edited by Nicole Müller
The selected contributions in this volume bring together applications of pragmatics in speech and language pathology, as well as discussions of the applicability of different theoretical strands of the study of human linguistic interaction and its cognitive bases to the field of communication… read more[Studies in Speech Pathology and Clinical Linguistics, 7] 2000. viii, 173 pp.
The Noblest Animate Motion: Speech, physiology and medicine in pre-Cartesian linguistic thought
Jeffrey Wollock
The body of theory on speech production and speech disorder developed prior to Descartes has been so neglected by historians that its very existence is practically unknown today. Yet it provides a framework for understanding the speech process which is not only comprehensive and coherent, but of… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 83] 1997. l, 462 pp.
Advances in Clinical Phonetics
Edited by Martin J. Ball and Martin Duckworth
Advances in Clinical Phonetics focuses on important developments in phonetic description. Recent years have seen increasing developments in phonetic description, in both instrumental and impressionistic approaches. Not restricted to the phonetics of normal speech, clinical phoneticians and speech… read more[Studies in Speech Pathology and Clinical Linguistics, 6] 1996. xiv, 258 pp.
Non-fluent Aphasia in a Multilingual World
Lise Menn, Michael P. O’Connor, Loraine K. Obler and Audrey Holland
“Non-fluent Aphasia in a Multilingual World” is an up-to-date introduction to the language of patients with non-fluent aphasia. Recent research in languages other than English has challenged our old descriptions of aphasia syndromes: while their patterns can be recognized across languages, the… read more[Studies in Speech Pathology and Clinical Linguistics, 5] 1995. xvii, 212 pp.
Reader in the History of Aphasia: From Franz Gall to Norman Geschwind
Edited by Paul Eling
The study of language and the brain is heavily dependent on the work of the early aphasiologists, and those wanting to get acquainted with the discipline will come across frequent references to these classic authors. This collection brings together seminal publications by 19th- and 20th-century… read more[Classics in Psycholinguistics, 4] 1994. xvi, 392 pp.
Confluence: Linguistics, L2 acquisition and speech pathology
Edited by Fred Eckman
That linguistics, L2 acquisition and speech pathology impinge on each other in areas of vital importance to each discipline seems to be almost undeniable. All three fields are concerned with the characterization of language in one form or another; and all deal with the acquisition of language by… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 4] 1993. xvi, 260 pp.
The Focusing Hypothesis: The theory of left hemisphere lateralised language re-examined
Alison Wray
This book explores the nature of the control of language processing by the hemispheres of the neocortex. The author expounds a novel hypothesis, “The Focusing Hypothesis”, which holds that language processing in the brain is achieved through analytic and holistic systems, the former through left… read more[Studies in Speech Pathology and Clinical Linguistics, 3] 1992. xiv, 207 pp.
Intelligibility in Speech Disorders: Theory, measurement and management
Edited by Raymond D. Kent
The papers in this volume, written by authors experienced in intelligibility issues in speech pathology and related fields, describe the basic dimensions by which speech intelligibility can and must be understood. The dimensions are auditory perceptual, linguistic, acoustic and physiologic. These,… read more[Studies in Speech Pathology and Clinical Linguistics, 1] 1992. vi, 365 pp.
Language and Schizophrenia
Janusz Wrobel
This book investigates the functioning of linguistic phenomena, especially in the area of semantics and pragmatics of the language of schizophrenics. By making semantics and pragmatics the primary objects of this work, the author departs from the traditional approach of those psycholinguistic and… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 33] 1989. viii, 132 pp.
Normale und gestörte Kindersprache
Harald Clahsen
Clahsen geht es in seinem neuen Buch um eine prazise empirische Theorie des kindlichen Spracherwerbs. Er argumentiert fur einige zentrale Bestandteile einer solchen Theorie, die groîenteils im Kontext linguistischer Theoriebildung stehen. Fur diesen Zweck werden vergleichende… read more[Not in series, 33] 1988. ix, 340 pp.
Social Setting, Stigma, and Communicative Competence: Explorations of the conversational interactions of retarded adults
Sharon Sabsay and Martha Platt
Mentally retarded individuals have been studied almost exclusively as clinical entities, not as persons immersed in the stream of social life. This has led not only to a lack of appreciation for the complexity of their lives and concerns, but also to an underestimation and incomplete understanding… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, VI:6] 1985. vi, 137 pp.
Prolegomena to Inferential Discourse Processing
Roger Van de Velde
This book shows that in reading verbal texts human reasoning is responsible for the recognition and construction of different forms of organization. On the one hand, it spells out in what ways human thinking succeeds in recognizing the surface form of grammatical organization which is… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, V:2] 1984. vii, 100 pp.
Versprechen und Verlesen: Eine psychologisch-linguistische Studie. New edition
Rudolf Meringer (1859–1931) und Carl Mayer (1862–1936)
Versprechen und Verlesen (1895) is distinguished more by observational accuracy than by theoretical sophistication; but it is exactly this characteristic which has proved its lasting value. It is a scrupulously collected, usefully organized, and very large corpus of errors, providing material on… read more[Classics in Psycholinguistics, 2] 1978. xl, xiv, 207 pp.