Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Discourse analysis and communication impairment / Nicole Müller, Jacqueline A. Guendouzi and Brent Wilson -- Conversational implicature and communication impairment / Elisabeth Ahlse -- Relevance theory and language disorders / Eeva Leinonen and Nuala Ryder -- Neuropragmatics / Brigitte Stemmer -- Pragmatic impairment as an emergent phenomenon / Michael R. Perkins -- Conversation analysis and communication disorders / Ray Wilkinson -- Clinical sociolinguistics / Jack S. Damico and Martin J. Ball -- Systemic functional linguistics and communication impairment / Alison Ferguson and Julie Thomson -- Crosslinguistic and multilingual perspectives on communicative competence and communication impairment: pragmatics, discourse and sociolinguistics / Zhu Hua and Li Wei -- Chomskyan syntactic theory and language disorder / Harald Clahsen -- Formulaic sequences and language disorder / Alison Wray -- Syntactic processing in developmental and acquired language disorders / Theodoros Marinis -- Morphology and language disorder / Martina Penke -- Normal and pathological semantic processing of words / Karima Kahlaoui and Yves Joanette -- Neural correlates of normal and pathological language processing / Stefan Frisch, Sonja Kotz and Angela Friederici -- Bilingualism and language impairment / Jan de Jong -- Cross-linguistic perspectives on the syntax and semantics of language disorder / Martha Crago, Johanne Paradis and Lise Menn -- Interfaces between cognition, semantics and syntax / Shula Chiat and Maria Black -- Instrumental analysis of articulation in speech impairment / Fiona E. Gibbon -- Instrumental analysis of resonance in speech impairment / Tara Whitehill and Alice S.-Y. Lee -- Instrumental analysis of phonation and voice / Shaheen N. Awan -- Acoustic analysis of speech / Ray D. Kent and Yunjung Kim -- Clinical phonetic transcription / Barry Heselwood and Sara Howard -- Comparisons in perception between speech and non-speech signals / Tessa Bent and David B. Pisoni -- Phonological analysis, phonological processes / Adele W. Miccio and Shelley E. Scarpino -- Constraint-based nonlinear phonological theories / Application and Implications / Barbara M.H. Bernhardt and Joseph P. Stemberger -- Optimality theory: a clinical perspective / Daniel A. Dinnsen and Judith A. Gierut -- Government phonology and speech impairment / Martin J. Ball -- Articulatory phonology and speech impairment / Pascal van Lieshout and Louis Goldstein -- A cognitive approach to clinical phonology / Anna Vogel Sosa and Joan L. Bybee -- Neurophonetics / Wolfram Ziegler -- Coarticulation and speech impairment / Bill Hardcastle and Kris Tjaden -- Vowel development and disorders / Carol Stoel-Gammon and Karen Pollock -- Prosodic impaireds / Bill Wells and Sandra Whiteside -- Speech intelligibility / Gary Weismer -- Connected speech / Sara Howard, Bill Wells and John Local -- Sociophonetics and clinical linguistics / Gerrard Docherty and Ghada Khattab -- Cross-linguistic phonological acquisition / David Ingram.