Notes on Contributors

Ingrid Aichert, PhD, is a speech-language pathologist. Since 2002, she has worked as a Research Associate in the Clinical Neuropsychology Research Group (EKN) at the Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing, Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. Her main research interests are neurogenic speech-sound disorders, in particular, apraxia of speech, and phonological impairments in aphasia.

Stanislava Antonijevic-Elliott is an Associate Professor at the School of Health Sciences, University of Galway, Ireland. She serves as the Head of Discipline of Speech and Language Therapy and is the co-director of MSc in Applied Multilingualism. She is a member of the Multilingual and Multicultural Affairs Committee of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP). Her research interests include monolingual and multilingual typical and atypical language development, focusing on language assessment. She is also interested in the use of narratives as a language assessment tool, as well as in its potential for language enrichment in school-age children and adult language learners.

Brent Archer hails from Johannesburg, South Africa. After completing a degree in speech-language pathology/audiology at the University of the Witwatersrand in 2006, Brent worked as a SLP/audiologist at hospitals and schools in the Free State province of South Africa. In 2012, he entered the Applied Languages and Speech Sciences PhD program at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. For his dissertation, Brent used various frameworks such as conversation analysis and cognitive ethnography to study conversation groups for people with aphasia. He investigated how groups of people with language deficits collaborated and used resources to remain effective, competent communicators. He is now an Associate Professor in Communication Disorders and Sciences Department at Bowling Green State University. In 2020, Brent was chosen as a Tavistock Aphasia Distinguished Scholar.

Jamie H. Azios, Ph.D., CCC-SLP is the Doris B. Hawthorne Endowed Chair in the Department of Communicative Disorders at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Her research interests include qualitative research methodologies, understanding perspectives of people living with communication disabilities, co-constructed conversation in aphasia, and the impact of communicative environments on social participation and inclusion. She has published articles related to person-centeredness, communication access, functional outcomes of aphasia therapy, and friendship and aphasia.

Elena Babatsouli is an Associate Professor and Blanco/BORSF Endowed Professor in Communicative Disorders at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She is founding coeditor of the Journal of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech (Equinox) and founding chair of the biennial International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech. Elena publishes on child monolingual/bilingual phonological acquisition and assessment, SSDs, SLA, CLD in speech-language pathology, psycholinguistics, clinical linguistics, and quantitative methods. She has edited/co-edited several books, journal special issues, and conference proceedings. A current project is Multilingual Acquisition and Learning: An Ecosystemic View of Diversity (John Benjamins). She also serves on ASHA’s Multicultural Issues Board and as ERC Consolidator Grant Referee for the European Research Council Executive Agency (ERCEA).

Martin J. Ball is honorary professor of linguistics at Bangor University and visiting professor in speech-language pathology at Wrexham Glyndŵr University, both in Wales. He previously held positions in Wales, Ireland, the US, and Sweden. He co-edits two academic journals and two book series. He has published widely in communication disorders, phonetics, sociolinguistics, bilingualism, and Welsh linguistics. He recently edited the Manual of Clinical Phonetics for Routledge publishers (2021). He is an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, and a fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. He currently lives in the Republic of Ireland.

Valentina Bambini is Full Professor of Linguistics at the University School for Advanced Studies IUSS Pavia, Italy. Her research interests revolve around the fields of neurolinguistics, experimental pragmatics, and neuropragmatics, with a focus on figurative language. Among her works, she has developed the Assessment of Pragmatic Abilities and Cognitive Substrates (APACS) test, a tool for evaluating pragmatic language disorder in clinical populations. Currently, she is the PI of an ERC Consolidator Grant entitled “PROcessing MEtaphors: Neurochronometry, Acquisition and DEcay” (PROMENADE), devoted to investigating the neurocognitive correlates of metaphor processing in the life span and in clinical populations. She co-founded the Experimental Pragmatics in Italy (XPRAG.it) research network.

Scott Barnes is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He is a speech pathologist and conversation analyst, and his research focuses on communication in the course of everyday life. Scott is especially interested in exploring the interfaces between the organization of interaction, language, cognition, and related impairments, and considering how this may inform speech pathology assessment and intervention strategies. Scott is currently the director of the Master of Speech and Language Pathology course at Macquarie University.

Sally Bates is a Senior Lecturer in Speech and Language Therapy at University of St Mark and St John, Plymouth, UK. She is a dual trained linguist and SLT with a clinical specialism in developmental Speech Sound Disorder and an academic interest in the interface between theory, practice, and student education. Sally is co-author of two speech assessment tools: PPSA (Phonetic and Phonological Systems Analysis) and CAV-ES (Clinical Assessment of Vowels – English Systems). She is a member of the UK and Ireland’s Children’s Speech Disorder Research Network and a lead author of their Good Practice Guidelines for the Analysis of Child Speech (2021), endorsed by the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. Sally is also author of the award winning Early Soundplay Series supporting early speech and language development.

Barbara May Bernhardt, now Professor Emerita, was on faculty at the School of Audiology and Speech Sciences at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, from 1990–2017. She was a speech-language pathologist from 1972–2022. Her primary focus is phonological development, assessment, and intervention across languages. In collaboration with co-investigator Joseph Paul Stemberger and colleagues in over 15 countries, she has been conducting an international cross-linguistic project in children’s phonological acquisition (phonodevelopment.sites.olt.ubc.ca) since 2006. Other areas of expertise include the utilization of ultrasound in speech therapy, language development, assessment and intervention, and approaches to service delivery for Indigenous people in Canada.

Daniel Bérubé is a speech-language pathologist and associate professor in the speech-language pathology program at the University of Ottawa. Recently, he has collaborated on an international cross-linguistic project in phonological development and a Health Canada project assessing the oral language and literacy skills of multilingual children.

Luca Bischetti is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Humanities and Life Sciences, University School for Advanced Studies IUSS Pavia, where he obtained his PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience and Philosophy of Mind with a dissertation on the relationship between verbal humor and Theory of Mind. His current research interests lie in the area of neuropragmatics, focusing on the assessment of pragmatic skills during the lifespan and the processing of figurative language phenomena and, in particular, humor.

Meike Brockmann-Bauser is head of research and speech pathology at the Department of Phoniatrics and Speech Pathology, Clinic for Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland. She is certified speech-language pathologist with a clinical interest in diagnosing and treating complex voice, swallowing and speech disorders, and holds a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from Newcastle University (UK). Her research, in collaboration with US, Brazilian, and Swedish groups, focuses on improving clinical voice diagnostics and treatment, primarily using instrumental acoustic voice assessment techniques. She is coauthor of the German national guideline for the assessment and treatment of voice disorders, of two textbooks on voice and swallowing disorders, and of the first master’s degree program in speech therapy in Switzerland.

Joan Bybee is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Linguistics at the University of New Mexico; she also was a Professor at the University at Buffalo from 1973–1989. Her research focuses on theoretical issues in phonology, morphology, language universals, and linguistic change. Her work utilizing large cross-linguistic databases provide diachronic explanations for typological phenomena. Her books and articles presenting a usage-based perspective on synchrony and diachrony include Phonology and Language Use (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Language, Usage and Cognition (Cambridge University Press, 2010). Professor Bybee served as the President of the Linguistic Society of America in 2004 and received an honorary doctorate from the University of...