The sixth edition of the classic textbook, Clinical Phonetics, continues to serve as both a practical guide and a thought-provoking reflection of the evolving landscape of the field of phonetics for speech-language pathology students. It provides articulatory descriptions and transcription guidance for the basics of American English phonetics, while also showcasing the diversity of phonetic forms that students will encounter across talkers with varied linguistic and clinical characteristics. This edition aims to take a more integrative approach than past editions-highlighting the intersection of language backgrounds, community contexts, and clinical decision-making throughout the chapters.
One of the most significant changes to this edition is the inclusion of a foundational discussion at the beginning of the text on how linguistic characteristics vary among speakers and why these differences matter in clinical practice-a topic students consistently find both engaging and relevant. These concepts are revisited across multiple chapters to support integrated learning and to emphasize key considerations for applying phonetics in clinical settings. The updates to the text are designed to equip students with the knowledge, skills, and awareness needed to become effective, responsive clinicians who can confidently and accurately transcribe speech in all its rich and meaningful variation.
New to the Sixth Edition
New and expanded audio materials using voices that reflect a range of ages, genders, and racial and cultural backgrounds, ensuring that the speech samples used for transcription practice better represent the populations students are likely to encounter in clinical work.
Transcription conventions aligned with the International Phonetic Alphabet, including modifications to some core symbols (for instance, /?/ instead of /r/), diacritics, and conventions for marking stress.
Chapter 5 on consonant transcription is reorganized by manner rather than place of articulation in order to help students better understand natural classes that underlie phonological patterns.
To help students tackle the challenge of narrow transcription, one chapter has been divided into two:
Chapter 7 focuses on typical allophonic variation.
Chapter 8 addresses clinical deviations. The clinical speech transcription exercises in this chapter are reorganized to start with changes that are easier to transcribe, like stop substitutions, and progress to more challenging deviations like vowel distortions.
Completely new or revised illustrations throughout the text, depicting the important features of individual speech sounds.
Key Features
Phonetic diversity highlighted throughout the book
Emphasis on transcription of clinically relevant variation in children's speech
Hundreds of transcription exercises to build students' perception and transcription of American English speech sounds
Thousands of audio examples representing child and adult speakers
Images and videos to support students' understanding of articulatory and acoustic phonetics
PluralPlus Online AncillariesFor instructors: PowerPoint Slides, Quizzes, Answer Key
For students: Quizzes, eFlashcards, Activities/Exercises
Auflage
Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für Beruf und Forschung
Für die Erwachsenenbildung
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Editions-Typ
Maße
Höhe: 279 mm
Breite: 216 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-63550-761-4 (9781635507614)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Dr. Shriberg, PhD, CCC-SLP, F-ASHA, is a Professor Emeritus of Communicative Sciences and Disorders, University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is Principal Investigator of the Phonology Project, Communicative and Cognitive Sciences Unit, Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Shriberg's research is centered on genetic and other origins of pediatric speech sound disorders.
Raymond D. Kent, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Communicative Sciences and Disorders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His publications include more than 250 journal articles, book chapters, and reviews on various topics in speech science and speech pathology. He has authored or edited 18 books, including: Clinical Phonetics (with L. D. Shriberg), Intelligibility in Speech Disorders, The Acoustic Analysis of Speech (with C. Read), Reference Manual for Communicative Sciences and Disorders: Speech-Language Pathology, The Speech Sciences, Handbook of Voice Quality Measurement (with M. J. Ball), and The MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders. He served as editor of the Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, associate founding editor of Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, and associate editor of Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica. His awards include: Honors of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association; Docteur Honoris Causa from the Universite de Montreal; Honorary Professor, The University of Queensland, Australia; Visiting Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, New Zealand; and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Oulu, Finland.
Tara McAllister, PhD, CCC-SLP, is an Associate Professor of Communicative Sciences and Disorders at New York University. She is a certified speech-language pathologist with degrees in linguistics from Harvard and MIT. Dr. McAllister's research aims to understand how speech skills are acquired in both typical and clinical populations, and why developmental speech patterns resolve in some individuals but persist in others. Since 2012, Dr. McAllister has led NIH-supported research investigating acoustic and ultrasound biofeedback intervention for residual speech sound disorder.
Jonathan L. Preston, PhD, CCC-SLP, is an Associate Professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at Syracuse University. His teaching interests include clinical aspects of phonetics, phonology, and speech sound disorders. His research focuses on neurolinguistically-motivated and evidence based treatments for speech sound disorders. He is conducts clinical trials to study treatments primarily for children with persisting speech sound errors as well as childhood apraxia of speech.
Marisha L. Speights, PhD, CCC-SLP, is an assistant professor at Northwestern University. Her research spans the areas of articulatory and acoustic phonetics, child speech production and disorders, and child speech intelligibility.
