This is the Home Page of Martin J. Ball, Ph.D., FRSA, FRCSLT

University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Department of Communicative Disorders
P.O.Box 43170, Lafayette, LA 70504-3170
Phone: (337) 482-1077  Fax: (337) 482-6195
E-mail: mjball@louisiana.edu

 

 


Job Title
Hawthorne-BORSF Endowed Professor II, and Director of the Doris B. Hawthorne Center for Special Education and Communicative Disorders

Courses Taught
Click below for courses taught by Dr Ball at U. L. Lafayette
 

CODI 220
Phonetics
(Undergraduate)

Fall semester

CODI 323

Disorders of Articulation and Phonology

(Undergraduate)

 

Spring semester

CODI 523

Advanced Description of Disordered Speech

(Master’s)

 

Fall semester

CODI 603
Clinical Sociolinguistics
(Doctoral)

 

Spring semester; currently unscheduled

CODI 611
Seminar in Language:
Advanced Clinical Phonology
(Doctoral)

 

Spring semester; currently unscheduled

CODI 611
Seminar in Language: Linguistic
Analysis and Language Description,
Clinical Applications (Doctoral)

Spring semester: next 2010

 

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Contact Information
E-mail address
mailto:mjball@louisiana.edu
Web address
http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~mjb0372/mjball.html
Office phone
(337) 482-1077

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Biographical Information
I studied Linguistics and English Literature at Bangor University in North Wales for my B.A., and later took an M.A. in Linguistics and Phonetics at the University of Essex (England). After a year working as an Assistant Lecturer at the University of Al Fateh, Sebha, in Libya, I was appointed as Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and Phonetics at the Cardiff School of Speech Therapy (now part of the University of Wales Institute Cardiff ) in 1978. This coincided with the rapid growth of interest in clinical linguistics (the interaction of linguistics and speech-language pathology), and I founded the journal Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics (published by Taylor and Francis ) in 1987. Today, I am co-Editor of this journal with Dr T W Powell of LSUHSC , Shreveport, and Dr N. Müller here at UL Lafayette.
I obtained my Ph.D. from the Cardiff University in Welsh linguistics in 1985, having also passed the University of Wales’s Certificate in Welsh as a Second Language. I was Founder Editor of the Journal of Celtic Linguistics, and edited this journal from 1990 To 1994. I am currently on the Editorial Boards of International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, Welsh Journal of Education, and Journal of Celtic Language Learning.
In 1987 I took up a post at the University of Glamorgan in Wales, and moved from there in 1991 to the University of Ulster at Jordanstown in Northern Ireland, where I taught on both the Speech and Language Therapy degree and the Linguistic Science degree. I was promoted to Reader in 1993 and to full Professor in 1997. I joined the University of. Louisiana at Lafayette in August 2000, as Hawthorne-BORSF Endowed Professor II, and was appointed Head of Department and Director of the Doris B. Hawthorne Center for Special Education and Communicative Disorders in April 2004. I relinquished the headship of department in June 2008 while remaining Director of the Research Center.

I met my wife, Nicole Müller, in Galway in 1986. She was also appointed to the faculty here at UL Lafayette in the Communicative Disorders department, and was promoted to full professor in 2006. See her homepage here.

I have published widely on both clinical linguistic issues, and Celtic linguistics, having authored or edited nearly 25 books, 40 contributions to collections, and around 80 refereed papers. I have also presented at many conferences. My current publications list is available here . At the Edinburgh Conference in 2000, I was elected President of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association . We hosted the 10th convention at Lafayette in 2004, when I was re-elected President. I stood down from the Presidency at the Dubrovnik meeting in 2006. In 2004 I was awarded an honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists of London , UK, and an Honorary Professorship of the University of Wales . In 2009 I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
 

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Personal Interests

 

Supporting the plan to re-build Baldwin 2-4-2T for the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway!

 


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Last revised: 7 February 2009