Toward an Interactional Clinical Phonetics and Phonology
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https://doi.org/10.1558/jircd.v1i1.31Keywords:
talk in interaction, disordered speech, interactional phonetics, systemic phonology, systemic functional linguisticsAbstract
In this paper we introduce two main areas of interactional research in the field of spoken language analysis, and describe with some brief preliminary studies, how these can be applied to the study of disordered speech. Interactional phonetics is a school of phonetic analysis that looks beyond the traditional concerns of phoneticians with the description of segmental speech features (especially those concerned with lexical contrast in a given speech variety) to those features (both supra- and subsegmental) that are used to signal events in talk in interaction. We demonstrate how this approach can be employed in disordered speech with two brief examples; one from an adult and one from a child. Systemic phonology deriving from work in Firthian prosodic phonology and situated within the Hallidayan Systemic Functional Linguistics, brings the explicit concerns of the interactional context into the analysis of sound system choices. We illustrate this with disordered speech with an example from an adult with progressive speech deterioration.
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Couper-Kuhlen, E. (1992). The prosody of interactive repair. In P. Auer and A. D. Luzio (eds) The Contextualization of Language 337–364. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Curl, T. (2004). ‘Repetition’ repairs: The relationship of phonetic structure and sequence organization. In E Couper-Kuhlen and C. E. Ford (eds) Sound Patterns in Interaction 273–298. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Curl, T., Local, J. and Walker, G. (2006). Repetition and the prosody-pragmatics interface. Journal of Pragmatics 38 (10): 1721–1751. doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2006.02.008
Eggins, S. (1994). An Introduction to Systemic Functional Linguistics. London: Pinter.
Ferguson, A. (2000). Maximising communicative effectiveness. In N. Muller (ed.) Pragmatics in Speech and Language Pathology 53–88. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Ferguson, A. and Thomson, J. (2008). Systemic Functional Linguistics and communication impairment. In M. J. Ball, M. S. Perkins, N. Muller and S. Howard (eds) Handbook of Clinical Linguistics 130–145. Oxford/Malden: Blackwell.
Firth, J. R (1948). Sounds and prosodies. Transactions of the Philological Society 1948 127–152. doi:10.1111/j.1467-968X.1948.tb00556.x
Ford, C. E. and Couper-Kuhlen, E. (2004). Conversation and phonetics: Essential connections. In E. Couper-Kuhlen and C. Ford (eds) Sound Patterns in Interaction: Crosslinguistic Studies of Phonetics and Prosody for Conversation 377–400. Amsterdam and Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins.
French, P. and Local, J. (1983). Turn-competitive incomings. Journal of Pragmatics 7 (1): 701–715. doi:10.1016/0378-2166(83)90147-9
Grunwell, P. (1985). The Phonological Assessment of Child Speech (PACS). Windsor: NFERNelson.
Halliday, M. A. K. (1961). Categories of the theory of grammar. Word 17 (3): 241–292.
Halliday, M. A. K. and Matthiessen, C. M. I. M. (2004). An Introduction to Functional Grammar (3rd edn). London: Arnold.
Hawley, H. K. (2005) Analyzing Therapeutic Interactions: An Exploration of How Clinician Control is Established and Maintained. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Kroll, T., Muller, N. and Ball, M. J. (2010). The impact of contextual, conversational, and affective factors on a child’s speech intelligibility. Paper presented at the 13th ICPLA Symposium, Oslo, June.
Local, J. K. (1992). Continuing and restarting. In P. Auer and A. D. Luzio (eds) The Contextualization of Language 273–296. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Local, J. K. and Kelly, J. (1985). Notes on phonetic detail and conversational structure. Belfast Papers in Linguistics 7: 1–15.
Local, J. K. and Kelly, J. (1986). Doing Phonology. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Local, J. K., Kelly, J. and Wells. W. H. G. (1986). Towards a phonology of conversation: turn-taking in Tyneside English. Journal of Linguistics 22: 411–437. doi:10.1017/S0022226700010859
Local, J. K., Wells, W. H. G. and Sebba, M. (1985). Phonology for conversation: phonetic aspects of turn-delimitation in London Jamaican. Journal of Pragmatics 9 (2-3): 309–330. doi:10.1016/0378-2166(85)90029-3
Muller, N., Ball, M. J. and Rutter, N. (2008) An idiosyncratic case of /r/ disorder: Application of principles from Systemic Phonology and Systemic Functional Linguistics. Asia-Pacific Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing 11 (4): 269–281.
Ogden, R. (2001). Turn transition, creak and glottal stop in Finnish talk-in-interaction. Journal of the International Phonetics Association 31: 139–152. doi:10.1017/S0025100301001116
Robins, R. H. (1957). Aspects of Prosodic Analysis. Proceedings of the University of Durham Philosophical Society 1. Durham, UK: University of Durham.
Rutter, B. (2008). Acoustic Properties of Repair Sequences in Dysarthric Conversational Speech: An Interactional Phonetic Study. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. doi:10.3109/02699200903062303
Rutter, B. (2009). Repair sequences in dysarthric conversational speech: a study in interactional phonetics. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics 23 (12): 887–900.
Selting, M. (1996). Prosody as an activity type distinctive cue in conversation: the case of so called ‘astonished’ questions in repair initiation. In E. Couper-Kuhlen and M. Selting (eds) Prosody and Conversation 231–270. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Tench, P. (1992). Studies in Systemic Phonology. London: Pinter.
Wells, B. and MacFarlane, S. (1998). Prosody as an interactional resource: turn projection and overlap. Language and Speech 41 (3-4): 265–294.
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2010-09-28
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Ball, M. J., & Damico, J. S. (2010). Toward an Interactional Clinical Phonetics and Phonology. Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders, 1(1), 31-44. https://doi.org/10.1558/jircd.v1i1.31
