As we assume our new roles as Co-Editors of Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, we would like to express our gratitude to the outgoing editors Dr. Martin Ball and Dr. Nicole Müller for their help and support in preparing a smooth transition and orienting us to our new tasks and responsibilities. We are honoured by the trust that they and the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association (ICPLA) are placing in us, but we are equally humbled (and just a little bit daunted) by the responsibility and the size of the shoes we are expected to fill.
Dr. Ball has skillfully led the journal since its inception in 1987, and Dr. Müller became Co-Editor in Chief in 2007. During their tenure, they have grown the journal from initially 4 to now 12 issues a year. Through their hard work, dedication and efforts over the years, they have firmly established Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics as one of the premier international outlets for research in our multidisciplinary field. Like so many other authors, both of us (VS and TB) have benefitted and learned from their characteristic, scientifically rigorous, yet constructive and benign editorial style, which we hope to emulate and continue. Thankfully, Drs. Ball and Müller are not leaving us completely alone with the journal: Dr. Ball assumes an honorary position as the journal’s Legacy Editor while Dr. Müller will join the Editorial Board. It is comforting to know that they will be staying close.
Looking at the journal’s masthead, you may notice a few other changes. We are grateful to the many members of the Editorial Board who have agreed to stay on and ensure continuity in the oversight of the journal. On behalf of the journal and the ICPLA, we would like to thank the board members (in alphabetical order) who have chosen to step down this year:
Hermann Ackermann (University of Tübingen), David Crystal (University of Reading),
Alison Ferguson (University of Newcastle), Brian Goldstein (University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences), William Hardcastle (Queen Margaret University), Ingo Hertrich (University of Tübingen), Yves Joanette (Université de Montreal), Anu Klippi (University of Helsinki), Thomas Powell (Louisiana State University), Jack Ryalls (University of Central Florida), Carol Stoel-Gammon (University of Washington), Seyhun Topbaş (Istanbul Medipol University), Mehmet Yavaş (Florida International University).
We thank them sincerely for all their contributions and their dedicated service to the journal. We hope that they will stay in contact with the journal and the ICPLA.
We hope that you will continue to support Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics by submitting your work, by contributing to peer review, and by reading and citing the work of your colleagues. Now, if you will excuse us, we have some manuscripts to work on.
Vesna Stojanovik, University of Reading, England, UK [email protected]
Tim Bressmann, University of Toronto, Canada [email protected]