ADVANCES IN CLINICAL PHONETICS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Contributors -- Developments in the Theoretical Understanding of Speech and its Disorders -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Speech Perception and Word Recognition -- 3. Speech Production -- 4. Phonology -- 5. Clinical Examples -- 5.1. Children's Phonological Disorders -- 5.2. Neurological Disorders of Speech in Adults -- 6. Summary -- References -- Current Developments in Instrumentation for Studying Supraglottal Structures -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Survey of Instrumental Techniques -- 2.1. Techniques for Acoustic Analysis -- 2.2. Articulatory Movement Analysis -- 2.2.1. Imaging techniques -- 2.2.2. Articulatory movement transduction -- 2.2.3. Tongue-palate contact measurement -- 2.2.4. Air-flow/pressure transduction -- 2.3. Neurophysiological Analysis -- 3. Conclusion -- References -- Carrent Developments in Transcription -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The International Phonetic Alphabet -- 3. Characteristics of Atypical Speech -- 3.1. Initiation and Phonation -- 3.2. Place and Manner of Articulation -- 3.3. Connected Speech -- 4. The Extensions to the IPA and the Voice Quality Symbols: extIPA and VoQS -- 4.1. Misarticulations in Child Speech -- 4.2 Cleft Palate or Velopharyngeal Inadequacy -- 4.3 Dysarthria -- 5. Transcribing Interactional Material -- 5.1. Transcription types -- 5.1.1 Analytic/Working records -- 5.1.2. Presentation transcriptions -- 5.2. Transcription for Interaction -- 5.2.1. Speaker identification and turn sequence -- 5.2.2. Simultaneous talk -- 5.2.3. Intervals within and between utterances -- 5.2.4. Transitions into and out of silent intervals -- 5.2.5. Word-fragments and other vocalizations -- 5.2.6. Prosodic parameters -- 5.3. Conclusion -- 6. Envoi -- References.

Perceptual and Acoustic Methods in the Evaluation of Dysarthric Speech -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Perceptual methods -- 2.1. Weakly structured listening tasks -- 2.1.1. Non-expert judgments -- 2.1.2. Auditory assessment by experts -- 2.2. Highly structured listening tasks -- 2.2.1. Stimulus-oriented clinical assessment -- 2.2.2. Perceptual experiments -- 3. Acoustic methods -- 3.1. Broad clinical measures -- 3.2. Subsystem comparisons -- 3.3. Nonspeech tasks -- 3.4. Experimental application -- 4. Conclusions -- Acknowledgment: -- References -- Description and Treatment of Abnormal Sibilant Production in a Group of School-aged Children using Electropalatography (EPG) -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. EPG Studies of Abnormal Fricative Production -- 1.2. Remediation of Abnormal Sibilants using EPG -- 2. Method -- 2.1. Instrumental Technique -- 2.2. Acoustic analysis -- 2.3. Test Material -- 2.4. Subjects -- 2.5. Treatment Strategies -- 3. Results -- 3.1. Dento-facialmeasurements -- 3.1.1. Skeletal measurements -- 3.1.2. Dental Occlusion measurements -- 3.2. Articulatory data -- 3.2.1. Pre-treatment EPG patterns -- 3.2.2. Pharyngealfricatives -- 3.2.3. Lateralization -- 3.2.4. Palatíalization -- 3.2.5. Velopharyngeal fricatives (nasal snort) -- 3.3. Post-treatment EPG Patterns -- 3.4. Acoustic Observations before and after Treatment -- 4. Discussion -- 4.1. Categorising Sibilant Error Patterns -- 4.1.1. Implications of EPG error patterns for therapy -- 4.1.2. Intra-subject differences in /s/ and /∫/ production -- 4.1.3. Efficacy of EPG in treating abnormal sibilant production -- 4.1.4. Effects of dento-facial characteristics on sibilant production -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix 1. Client Details -- Appendix 2. Test Material -- An Unusual Pattern of Speech Production in a Child with Acquired Epileptic Aphasia -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Case Report.

2.1 Method -- 2.2. Results -- 2.2.1. Number of Different Words (NDW) -- 2.2.2. MLU -- 2.2.3. Free morphemes -- 2.2.4. Suprasegmental analysis -- 2.2.4. Segmental analysis -- 2.2.5. Percentage of incorrect labial and lingual production -- 2.2.6. Percentage of incorrect production of stops and fricatives -- 2.2.7. Phonological errors -- 2.3. Discussion -- References -- The Clinical Assessment of Finnish Fluency -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. The speech therapist and the concept of 'fluency' -- 1.1.1. The Ideal Speaker Model -- 1.1.2. The impact on the speech therapist -- 1.2. The unreliability of statistical rese -- 1.2.1 The word -- 1.2.2. The morpheme -- 1.2.3. The syllable -- 1.2.4. The phoneme -- 1.2.5. The mean utterance length -- 1.3. Additional problems of the Finnish speech therapist -- 1.3.1. Difficulties in the use of 'outside ' research -- 1.3.2. The 'ideal speaker ' problem in Finland -- 1.4. The aims of the study -- 2. Method -- 2.1. Subjects -- 2.1.1. Patients -- 2.2. Material -- 2.2.1. Material for narration -- 2.2.2. Laboratory Materials -- 2.3. Equipment -- 2.4. Procedure -- 2.4 1. The Cartoon Narrations -- 2.4.2. Evaluation of Fluency by the Speech Therapis -- 2.4.3. Laboratory Analysis of the Cartoon Narrations -- 3. Results -- 3.1. Therapists' Clinical Evaluation of the Narrators -- 3.1.1. Therapists' Definitions of Fluency -- 3.1.2. Importance of Content -- 3.1.3. The overall fluency ratings -- 3.2. Laboratory Analysis of the Narrators -- 3.3. Laboratory Rankings and Therapist Rankings: Relation of Laboratory Analysis to Fluency -- 3.3.1. Fit between the therapists' rankings and laboratory rankings -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Acoustic Analysis as an Aid to the Transcription of an Example of Disfluent Speech -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Phonetic Description in Disordered Speech -- 3. The Study -- 3.1. The Subject.

3.2. The Recording -- 3.3. The Analysis -- 3.4. Acoustic Analysis -- 4. Discussion: Clinical Relevance -- 5. Discussion: Transcription -- References -- Cepstra of normal and pathological voices: correlation with acoustic, aerodynamic and perceptual data. -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Material and methods -- 3. Results -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- The Effects of Smoking on the Female Voice -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Experiment 1: Speaking Fundamental Frequency -- 2.1. Subjects -- 2.2. Datacollection -- 2.3. Analysis -- 2.4. Results -- 3. Experiment 2: Fundamental Frequency Range -- 3.1. Subjects -- 3.2. Datacollection -- 3.3. Analysis -- 3.4. Results -- 4. Discussion -- References -- Isovowel Lines for the Evaluation of Foreign Accent Difficulties -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Method -- 2.1. Spectr graphic Analysis -- 2.2. Data Analysis -- 3. Results and Discussion -- References -- Index.