From the Back Cover
For more than 20 years, Clinical Phonetics has been the leading resource for those interested in acquiring both the academic content and the transcription skills required for responsible clinical decision-making. Clinical Phonetics, Third Edition, is a comprehensive introduction to the art and science of clinical transcription. The three primary strengths of Clinical Phonetics continue to be: a) authoritative coverage of the phonetics of American English, b) tested skills teaching in clinical transcription using four hours of audio examples (audio CDs sold separately), and c) discussion of a wealth of clinically-relevant topics throughout the text and numerous appendices. For professional in the fields of linguistics and language pathology.
About the Author
Lawrence D. Shriberg, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Communicative Disorders and a principal investigator in the Communicative and Cognitive Sciences Group, Waisman Center, University of WisconsinMadison. His research is centered on genetic and other origins of pediatric speech sound disorders of known and unknown origin.
Raymond D. Kent, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Communicative Disorders at the University of WisconsinMadison. His research has been primarily in the acoustics and physiology of speech, typical and atypical development of speech in children, and neurogenic communication disorders in children and adults with an emphasis on acoustic analysis and the assessment of intelligibility.
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