David Crystal receives honours of ICPLA

In conversation with David Crystal (note the Waterford Crystal bowl)

During the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association Conference, Professor David Crystal received the honours of the association. This was the first time ICPLA has bestowed an award to anyone, and David Crystal was a very worthy recipient. He was the founder of the field of clinical linguistics and phonetics, and has written many many books and articles on the topic. After being presented with an engraved Waterford Crystal bowl, the delegates of the ICPLA conference were treated to a Conversation with David Crystal. During the conversation, David outlined his long held belief that there should be a linguistics lab, much like a blood pathology lab, for speech-language pathologists to send language samples to. He also described the 3 things influencing the world's languages: the globalization of English, the digitization of language, and the extincion of languages. In addition, he said that he would not change his "bucket theory" regarding the influence of different components of language on one another.

Dr Karla Washington, Professor David Crystal, and Kate Crowe