Elaine Ballard

Phone: +64 9 373 7599 ext 87502
Email: e.ballard@auckland.ac.nz
Room: 721.313, Tāmaki
Office hours: Please email for appointment

Elaine graduated from the University of Auckland with a degree in German and Italian before going to the United States to pursue a doctorate in linguistics at Cornell University. On returning to Auckland she took up a position in linguistics before moving on to her current position in the Speech Science division in the Department of Psychology.

Elaine’s research areas of interest are phonology, child language, multilingualism, historical linguistics and languages other than English. In her most recent research she is focusing on phonological development in languages as diverse as Mandarin and Samoan.

• BALLARD, E. & FARAO, S. Designing a phonology assessment for Samoan bilingual speaking children.   Under consideration. Journal of the New Zealand Speech Therapy Association
• BALLARD, E. & FARAO, S. 2008  ‘The Phonological Knowledge of Samoan Speaking Four Year Olds: preliminary results’  International Journal of Speech language Pathology 10/6, 379-391
• BALLARD, E. & STARKS, D.2005 ‘Liquids: laterals and rhotics or much more?’ in Ilana Mushin (ed) Proceedings of the 2004 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society. (www.dspace.library.usyd.edu.au)
• STARKS, D. & BALLARD, E. 2005  ‘Woods Cree: an unusual type of sonorant’ IJAL 71/1, 102-115.
• STARKS, D. & BALLARD, E. 2004 ‘A short note on changes in preaspiration in Woods Cree’  Linguistica Atlantica 24, 1001-1007.