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				Martin J. Ball, Ph.D.,FRCSLT
				Hawthorne-BoRSF Endowed Professor II Director of the Doris B. Hawthorne Center for Special Education and Communicative Disorders
				B.A. (Hons) English and Linguistics, University of Wales (Bangor), UK, 1973 M.A. Linguistics and Phonetics, University of Essex, UK, 1976 Ph.D. Welsh Linguistics, University of Wales (Cardiff), UK, 1985
				P.O. Box 43170 Lafayette, LA 70504 O K Allen Hall, Room 194A Phone: 337-482-1077 Email: mjball@louisiana.edu URL: http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~mjb0372/mjball.html
				Short List of Research Interests: General and clinical phonetics (especially developments in transcription and instrumentation) Phonology (especially dependency/government phonology and cognitive approaches as applied to disordered speech) Sociolinguistics and Celtic linguistics Minority languages, and bilingualism Major/Principal Publication: Ball, M.J. & Damico, J. (Eds.)(2007) Clinical Aphasiology: Future Directions. Hove: Psychology Press. Ball, M.J. (2007) Welsh. In Britain, D. (Ed.), Language in the British Isles (2nd edition). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Ball, M.J. (2007) Articulatory Foundations of Speech Acquisition. In McLeod, S. (Ed.) The International Guide to Speech Acquisition. San Diego: Delmar-Thompson. Munro, S., Ball, M.J., & Müller, N. (2007) Welsh Speech Acquisition. In McLeod, S. (Ed.) The International Guide to Speech Acquisition. San Diego: Delmar- Thompson. Ball, M.J. and Müller, N.(2007) Non-pulmonic egressive speech sounds in disordered speech: a review. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 21, 869-874. Ball, M.J., Müller, N. and Munro, S. (2006) Welsh/English- speaking bilingual children. In Hua, Z. and Dodd, B. (Eds.), Phonological development and disorders in Children: A Multilingual Perspective. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. Ball, M.J. (Ed.) (2005) Clinical Sociolinguistics. Oxford: Blackwell. Ball, M.J. and Müller, N. (2005) Phonetics for Communication Disorders. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

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