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Martin Ball   Martin Ball

Professor and Head, Communicative Disorders

Director of the Doris B. Hawthorne Center for Special Education and Communicative Disorders

Doris B. Hawthorne/BORSF Professorship in Communicative Disorders II

Ph.D., Welsh Linguistics, University of Wales, 1985

Dissertation: Sociolinguistic Aspects of the Welsh Mutation System
 

 
Publications since 2000
 
  • Ball, M. J., Manuel, R. and Müller, N. (2004) Deapicalization and Velodorsal Articulation as Learned Behaviors: A Videofluorographic Study. Child Language Teaching and Therapy.
  • Chung, K., Code, C. and Ball, M. J. (2004) Speech automatisms and recurring utterances from aphasic Cantonese speakers. Journal of Multilingual Communication Disorders, 2, 32-42.
  • Damico, J. S., Müller, N. and Ball, M. J. (2004) Owning up to Complexity: A Socio-cultural Orientation to ADHD. Seminars in Speech and Language, 25, 277-285.
  • Ball, M. J. (2003) Clinical applications of a cognitive phonology. Phoniatrics, Logopedics, Vocology, 28, 63-69.
  • Nelson, R. and Ball, M. J. (2003) Models of phonology in the education of speech-language pathologists. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 17, 403-409.
  • Ball, M. J., Müller, N. and Damico, H. (2003) Double Onset Syllable Structure in a Speech Disordered Child. Advances in Speech-Language Pathology, 5, 37-40.
  • Ball, M. J. and Rahilly, J. (2002) Transcribing Disordered Speech: the Segmental and Prosodic Layers. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 16, 329-344.
  • Ball, M. J. and Müller, N. (2002) The use of the terms phonetics and phonology in the description of disordered speech. Advances in Speech-Language Pathology, 4, 95-108.
  • Ball, M. J. (2004) Instrumental speech assessment. In Kent, R. D. (Ed.), TheMIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Pp. 169-173.
  • Ball, M. J. (2002) Clinical phonology of vowel disorders. In Ball, M. J. and Gibbon, F. ( Eds) Vowels and Vowel Disorders. London: Butterworth-Heinemann. Pp. 187-216.
  • Ball, M. J. and Gibbon, F. ( Eds) (2002) Vowels and Vowel Disorders. Woburn, MA: Butterworth-Heinemann.
  • Ball, M. J. (2001) On diacritics. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 31,259-264.
  • Ball, M. J., Gracco, V. and Stone, M. (2001) Imaging techniques for the investigation of normal and disordered speech production. Advances in Speech-Language Pathology, 3,13-24.
  • Ball, M. J. and Lowry, O. (2001) Methods in Clinical Phonetics. London: Whurr.
  • Ball, M. J., Müller, N. and Munro, S. (2001) Patterns in the acquisition of the Welsh lateral fricative. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 15,3-7.
  • Ball, M. J., Müller, N. and Munro, S. (2001) The acquisition of the lateral fricative in Welsh-English bilinguals. Multilingua, 20,269-284.
  • Ball, M. J., Müller, N. and Munro, S. (2001) The acquisition of the rhotic consonants by Welsh-English bilingual children. International Journal of Bilingualism, 5,71-86.
  • Ball, M. J. and Williams, B.(2001) Welsh Phonetics. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press.
  • Ball, M. J. (2000) Problems in pragmatic profiling. In Müller, N. (Ed.) Pragmatics and Clinical Applications. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp 89-106.
  • Müller, N., Ball, M. J. and Guendouzi, J. (2000) Accent reduction programmes: not a role for speech-language pathologists? (Main Forum article, commissioned.) Advances in Speech-Language Pathology, 2,119-129.
  • Müller, N., Guendouzi, J. and Ball, M. J. (2000) Accent modification, pronunciation training, communication enhancement: the need for definitions, delimitations, and research. Advances in Speech-Language Pathology, 2,151-154.Ball, M. J. and Rahilly, J. (1999) Phonetics. The Science of Speech. London: Edward Arnold.
 
 
Grants and Contracts
 
  • £147,000 ($213,500) from the Higher Education Funding Council of England to develop an interactive system for phonetic training and assessment in collaboration with University College London, the University of York, the University of Newcastle, the University of Cambridge, anFriday, October 21, 2005 3:04 PM
 
 
Offices, Awards and Honors
 
  • Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, London (awarded 2004)
  • Honorary Professor, University of Wales (awarded 2004)
  • President, International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association, 2000-present.
  • Editor of Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, an international journal published by Taylor and Francis Ltd, London. 1986-present.
  • Associate Editor of the Journal of Multilingual Communication Disorders, an international journal published by Taylor and Francis Ltd, London. 2002-present.
  • Co-Editor with Tom Powell (LSUMC, New Orleans) and Alison Ferguson ( Newcastle, Australia) of the book series Methods in Speech and Language Disorders. Whurr Publishers ( London). 1998 - present (launched 2001).
  • Administrative Editor, Journal of Celtic Linguistics, 1990-1994; Editorial Board member, 1994-present. Editorial Board member, Journal of Celtic Language Learning, 1994-present; Advances in Speech Pathology, 1997-present; Welsh Journal of Education, 2001-present; International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 2002-present.
 

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