Publications by Aubrey Nunes

Chapters, theses, papers, talks

(1976) The Understanding of Questions. MA Dissertation; University of Essex

(1988) Small Talk. Paper and poster at the Fifth Annual Study Day on Early Language Screening at Newham General Hospital

(1993) The case of Welsh and Geometrical Approaches to Phonological Disorder. Paper at International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association, Manchester Metropolitan University.

(1994) The emergence of disfluency in children and the skeleton/root distinction in phonology. Paper at the International Child Language Seminar. University of Bangor

(2002) The Price of a Perfect System: Learnability and the Distribution of Errors in the Speech of Children Learning English as a First Language. University of Durham, PhD Dissertation.

(2005) Bell, Learnability and Dyslalia. Aphasia and Autism – Speech and Thinking Disorders. Paper at University of Wroclav.

(2006) The space between. Speech and Language Therapy in Practice.

(2009) The British origins of child speech practice: A legacy lost. In Caroline Bowen (Ed) Children’s Speech Sound Disorders. Wiley-Blackwell

(2014) John Thelwall (1764-1834), the first full time speech and language therapist. Inaugural John Thelwall Society conference, University of Notre Dame London Centre

(2019) Possible Words and Clinical Linguistics: Limiting the Scope of Sensori-motor Explanation by a Restrictive, Atkinson/Pinker-style Theory of Developmental Incompetence. Paper. Conference on Neurolinguistics University of Novi Sad.

(2022) The lockstep evolution of speech and language and finite learnability: Five steps. Paper at the First International Conference on Biolinguistics, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

(2023) Growing Babies and Growing Humans: Disorder, Genomics, Co-morbidities, Evolvability. In Katsarou, D. (Ed) Developmental Language Disorders. New York: IGI Global.

(2024) The Power of Decreasing Infinity: An Evolutionary Function Reducing the Infinity of the Faculty of Language in Seven Steps – reversing the order of LLM. Paper at Changing Boundaries Conference, University of Beijing.