This is the second edition of the conference proceedings for the 14th Meeting of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association (ICPLA), held on 27–30 June 2012 at University College Cork, Ireland. The conference was the largest so far, attracting around 250 delegates from 33 different countries. The scientific programme included a total of 160 posters, 60 oral sessions, 9 thematic panels, 4 plenary talks and 1 award presentation – the Honours of the Association. The honoree was Prof. David Crystal, for his pioneering work in the field of Clinical Linguistics, his important on-going work in that field, and in the study of language in general.
The first edition of the conference proceedings, which included three plenaries and four research papers, was published in the April issue of the Journal. The current, second edition includes 13 papers contributed by the following authors: Mehmet Yavaş; Nancy Scherer, Zuzana Oravkinova and Matthew McBee; Elspeth McCartney and Sue Ellis; Fiona Gibbon and Heather Smyth; Hanne Gram Simonsen, Marianne Lind, Pernille Hansen, Elisabeth Holm and Bjørn-Helge Mevik; David Snow and David Ertmer; Daniela Gatt, Helen Grech and Barbara Dodd; Boška Munivrana and Vesna Mildner; Natalia Zharkova; Toby Macrae; Sandrine Leroy, Christophe Parisse and Christelle Maillart; Elisabeth Joy Newbold, Joy Stackhouse and Bill Wells; Chantal Desmarais, Line Nadeau, Natacha Trudeau, Paméla Filiatrault-Veilleux and Catherine Maxès-Fournier.