Martin J. Ball is Hawthorne Endowed Professor and Head of the Department of Communicative Disorders at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Michael R. Perkins is Professor of Clinical Linguistics in the Department of Human Communication Sciences at the University of Sheffield, England.Nicole Müller is Hawthorne-BoRSF Endowed Professor in the Department of Communicative Disorders at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.Sara Howard is Senior Lecturer in Clinical Phonetics in the Department of Human Communication Sciences at the University of Sheffield.

"This collection performs a rite of passage: clinical linguistics has come of age."—David Crystal, University of Wales, Bangor "The range of topics represented here, and the quality of the contributions, underline the advances Clinical Linguistics has made in three decades. This volume will for some time be the benchmark against which others in the field will be evaluated."—Paul Fletcher, University College Cork"This comprehensive compendium covers the breadth and depth of clinical linguistics, presenting the latest research on pragmatics, discourse, sociolinguistics, syntax, semantics, phonetics and phonology. The impressive cohort of international contributors comprises the foremost authorities in their fields. This book is a classic reference work and will be frequently cited."—Sharynne McLeod, Charles Sturt University, Australia"This Handbook offers state-of-the-art reviews and cutting-edge research reports. It is strongly recommended as a textbook for students at the master's level and higher, instructors and researchers in a variety of disciplines, including Speech-Language Pathology, Clinical Linguistics, Medicine, and Psychology."—Ben Maassen, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre

• Notes on Contributors vList of Figures viiiNotes on Contributors xIntroduction xxiiiMartin J. Ball, Michael R. Perkins, Nicole Müller, and Sara HowardPart I Pragmatics, Discourse, and Sociolinguistics 11 Discourse Analysis and Communication Impairment 3Nicole Müller, Jacqueline A. Guendouzi, and Brent Wilson2 Conversational Implicature and Communication Impairment 32Elisabeth Ahlsén3 Relevance Theory and Communication Disorders 49Eeva Leinonen and Nuala Ryder4 Neuropragmatics 61Brigitte Stemmer5 Pragmatic Impairment as an Emergent Phenomenon 79Michael R. Perkins6 Conversation Analysis and Communication Disorders 92Ray Wilkinson7 Clinical Sociolinguistics 107Jack S. Damico and Martin J. Ball8 Systemic Functional Linguistics and Communication Impairment 130Alison Ferguson and Julie Thomson9 Cross-Linguistic and Multilingual Perspectives on Communicative Competence and Communication Impairment: Pragmatics, Discourse, and Sociolinguistics 146Zhu Hua and Li WeiPart II Syntax and Semantics 16310 Chomskyan Syntactic Theory and Language Disorders 165Harald Clahsen11 Formulaic Sequences and Language Disorder 184Alison Wray12 Syntactic Processing in Developmental and Acquired Language Disorders 198Theodoros Marinis13 Morphology and Language Disorder 212Martina Penke14 Normal and Pathological Semantic Processing of Words 228Karima Kahlaoui and Yves Joanette15 Neural Correlates of Normal and Pathological Language Processing 245Stefan Frisch, Sonja A. Kotz, and Angela D. Friederici16 Bilingualism and Language Impairment 261Jan de Jong17 Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on the Syntax and Semantics of Language Disorders 275Martha Crago, Johanne Paradis, and Lise Menn18 Interfaces between Cognition, Semantics, and Syntax 290Maria Black and Shula ChiatPart III Phonetics and Phonology 30919 Instrumental Analysis of Articulation in Speech Impairment 311Fiona E. Gibbon20 Instrumental Analysis of Resonance in Speech Impairment 332Tara L. Whitehill and Alice S.-Y. Lee21 Instrumental Analysis of Phonation 344Shaheen N. Awan22 Acoustic Analysis of Speech 360Ray D. Kent and Yunjung Kim23 Clinical Phonetic Transcription 381=Barry Heselwood and Sara Howard24 Comparisons in Perception between Speech and Nonspeech Signals 400Tessa Bent and David B. Pisoni25 Phonological Analysis, Phonological Processes 412Adele W. Miccio and Shelley E. Scarpino26 Constraints-Based Nonlinear Phonological Theories: Application and Implications 423Barbara M. H. Bernhardt and Joseph P. Stemberger27 Optimality Theory: A Clinical Perspective 439Daniel A. Dinnsen and Judith A. Gierut28 Government Phonology and Speech Impairment 452Martin J. Ball29 Articulatory Phonology and Speech Impairment 467Pascal H. H. M. van Lieshout and Louis M. Goldstein30 A Cognitive Approach to Clinical Phonology 480Anna Vogel Sosa and Joan L. Bybee31 Neurophonetics 491Wolfram Ziegler32 Coarticulation and Speech Impairment 506Bill Hardcastle and Kris Tjaden33 Vowel Development and Disorders 525Carol Stoel-Gammon and Karen Pollock34 Prosodic Impairments 549Bill Wells and Sandra Whiteside35 Speech Intelligibility 568Gary Weismer36 Connected Speech 583Sara Howard, Bill Wells, and John Local37 Sociophonetics and Clinical Linguistics 603Gerrard Docherty and Ghada Khattab38 Cross-Linguistic Phonological Acquisition 626David IngramAuthor Index 641Subject Index 668