Acknowledgements
There are a number of people whose assistance I wish to acknowledge. I particularly want to thank Helen Barton, Commissioning Editor in Language and Linguistics at Cambridge University Press, for responding positively to the proposal for this book. I am grateful to a number of individuals and organizations for permission to use images throughout this book: Jenny Loehr; Mark Liberman; Laughlin Dawes; Sheryl Lewin; Joe Hinz; Leah Garaas; Maurice H. Miller; John Rutka; Valeria Abusamra; Daniel Low; David A. Daly; James P. Thomas; Bechara Y. Ghorayeb; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; MED-EL; International Hearing Society; Occupational Safety and Health Administration, USA; GN Otometrics; Pearson; Taylor & Francis Ltd; US Department of Transportation; World Health Organization; Cook Medical; Otolaryngology Houston; InHealth Technologies; Applied Medical Technology, Inc.; The Stuttering Foundation of America. I also wish to acknowledge the assistance of Judith Heaney who collated the manuscript. Finally, I have been supported by family members and friends who are too numerous to mention individually. I am grateful to them for their kind words of encouragement during my many months of work on this volume.