Ferenc Bunta Author

Raymond D. Kent, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Communicative Sciences and Disorders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His publications include more than 250 journal articles, book chapters, and reviews on various topics in speech science and speech pathology. He has authored or edited 18 books, including: Clinical Phonetics (with L. D. Shriberg), Intelligibility in Speech Disorders, The Acoustic Analysis of Speech (with C. Read), Reference Manual for Communicative Sciences and Disorders: Speech-Language Pathology, The Speech Sciences, Handbook of Voice Quality Measurement (with M. J. Ball), and The MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders. He served as editor of the Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, associate founding editor of Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, and associate editor of Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica. His awards include: Honors of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association; Docteur Honoris Causa from the Université de Montréal; Honorary Professor, The University of Queensland, Australia; Visiting Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, New Zealand; and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Oulu, Finland.

Ferenc Bunta, PhD is a Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Houston. His research focuses on bilingual and cross-linguistic phonological acquisition in both typical children and their peers with communication disorders (such as children with hearing loss who use cochlear implants). He is also the founding director of the PhD Program in Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Houston. He has taught courses on speech science, phonetics, speech and language development, writing in communication sciences and disorders, phonology, and bilingual language development.