Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics encompasses the following:

Linguistics and phonetics of disorders of speech and language

Contribution of data from communication disorders to theories of speech production and perception

Research on communication disorders in multilingual populations, and in under-researched populations, and languages other than English

Pragmatic aspects of speech and language disorders

Clinical dialectology and sociolinguistics

Childhood, adolescent and adult disorders of communication

Linguistics and phonetics of hearing impairment, sign language and lip-reading

Please note Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics does not include studies of normal speech or language development unless there is a substantial section devoted to examples of the clinical relevance of the study.