Alduais Ahmed, Alduais Abdullah, Alfadda Hind, Allegretta Silvia
Department of Human Sciences (Psychology), University of Verona, 37129 Verona, Italy.
English Language Institute, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia.
Children (Basel). 2022 Aug 10;9(8):1202. doi: 10.3390/children9081202.
Across the world, many infants, children, adults, and elderly people are reported with many types of disorders and disabilities that damage, delay, or impede typical language development and/or use. Speech-language pathologists and other relevant clinicians are responsible for diagnosing, assessing, and rehabilitating these conditions. In nearly all types of disorders or disabilities that affect language, clinical linguistics plays a significant role in their study, diagnosis, and evaluation. This study provides a thorough analysis of the field of clinical linguistics. Data from Scopus, WOS, and Lens were used between 1981 and 2022. The documents included in the analysis were 1685, 1628, and 2677 articles published between 1981 and 2022 in clinical linguistics in Scopus, WOS, and Lens, respectively. For the purpose of assessing the development and impacts of the field of clinical linguistics, we used eight bibliometric and eight scientometric indicators. As part of the study, the results summarized the top contributors to clinical linguistics in terms of production size by year, country, university/research centre, journal, publisher, and author. The impact of the examined evidence on clinical linguistics was visualized and tabulated in the form of visual networks, citation counts, burst, cooccurrence, centrality, and sigma factors that are helpful in identifying the main influencers in clinical linguistics. A few examples of clinical linguistics patterns that are being explored extensively by researchers include cleft palate speech with model theories, visual feedback, motor speech disorders with instrumental analysis, acoustic analysis to understand conversational breakdown, nonlinear phonological theory, aphasic conversation in atypical interaction, and diagnostic markers in functional segments. There are also phonological disorders, William Syndrome, and the use of ultrasound, which may be considered potential clusters of clinical linguistics. A key contribution of this paper is highlighting the importance of clinical linguistics as well as its integration with linguistics, speech-language pathology, neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, neuroscience, cognitive sciences, psychology, and psychometrics.
在世界各地，据报告许多婴儿、儿童、成人和老年人患有多种类型的疾病和残疾，这些疾病和残疾会损害、延迟或阻碍典型语言发展和/或使用。言语语言病理学家和其他相关临床医生负责诊断、评估和治疗这些病症。在几乎所有影响语言的疾病或残疾类型中，临床语言学在其研究、诊断和评估中都发挥着重要作用。本研究对临床语言学领域进行了全面分析。使用了1981年至2022年期间来自Scopus、WOS和Lens的数据。分析中纳入的文献分别是1981年至2022年在Scopus、WOS和Lens上发表的1685篇、1628篇和2677篇临床语言学文章。为了评估临床语言学领域的发展和影响，我们使用了八个文献计量指标和八个科学计量指标。作为研究的一部分，结果按年份、国家、大学/研究中心、期刊、出版商和作者总结了临床语言学领域产量最高的贡献者。通过可视化网络、引用次数、爆发、共现、中心性和西格玛因子等形式，将所审查证据对临床语言学的影响进行了可视化和列表，这些有助于识别临床语言学中的主要影响因素。研究人员广泛探索的一些临床语言学模式的例子包括腭裂语音与模型理论、视觉反馈、运动性言语障碍与仪器分析、用于理解对话中断的声学分析、非线性音系学理论、非典型互动中的失语症对话以及功能段中的诊断标记。还有语音障碍、威廉姆斯综合征以及超声波的使用，这些可能被视为临床语言学的潜在聚类。本文的一个关键贡献是强调了临床语言学的重要性以及它与语言学、言语语言病理学、神经语言学、心理语言学、神经科学、认知科学、心理学和心理测量学的整合。
