• Lenition and fortition of /r/ in utterance-final position, an ultrasound tongue imaging study of lingual gesture timing in spontaneous speech 

  Lawson, Eleanor; Stuart-Smith, Jane (Elsevier, 2021-04-16)

  The most fundamental division in English dialects is the rhotic/non-rhotic division. The mechanisms of historical /r/-loss sound change are not well understood, but studying a contemporary /r/-loss sound change in a rhotic ...

• Interpreters, rapport, and the role of familiarity 

  Mapson, Rachel; Major, George (Elsevier, 2021-02-18)

  This paper explores one of the conditions that can foster interpreters’ ability to process meaning: their familiarity with the primary participants. Discussion focuses on how latent networks (Watts, 2003) inform the ...

• Pausing mid-sentence: An ecological model approach to language disorder and lived experience of young male offenders 

  Fitzsimons, Dermot; Clark, Ann (MDPI, 2021-01-29)

  International research evidence has firmly established a high prevalence of language disorder in young offender populations. Less is known about young offenders’ perspectives on their own language abilities. The study ...

• The dorsal differentiation of velar from alveolar stops in typically developing children and children with persistent velar fronting 

  Cleland, Joanne; Scobbie, James M. (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2021-03-09)

  Purpose: This study has two key aims: Firstly to provide developmental articulatory norms for the alveolar–velar distinction in 30 English-speaking typically developing children. Secondly to illustrate the utility of ...

• Police officers’ awareness of the speech, language and communication needs of young offenders 

  MacRae, AnneMarie; Clark, Ann (SAGE, 2020-10-22)

  Around 60% of young people in conflict with the law experience speech, language and communication needs (SLCN). This study investigates Police Scotland officers’ awareness of the SLCN of young offenders, strategies ...

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