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  1. Teaching With TalkBank Grand Rounds: A Tutorial on Implementing Evidence-Based Educational Tools for Adult Neurogenic Communication Disorders

    Article • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, August 2026, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Brian MacWhinney, Anna Saylor, Alyssa Lanzi, Jamila Minga

  2. Developmental Sentence Scoring for Preschool Language Sample Analysis: A Psychometric Update

    Article • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, January 2026, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Brian MacWhinney

  3. Evaluating Picture Description Speech for Dementia Detection using Image-text Alignment

    Article • ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare, November 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brian MacWhinney

  4. How people with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) talk about important life events.

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, August 2024, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Brian MacWhinney, Leanne Togher, Erica Zhang, Joanne Steel

  5. Automated Analysis of Fluency Behaviors in Aphasia

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, June 2024, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Brian MacWhinney

  6. Collaborative Commentary for Understanding Communication Disorders

    Article • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, July 2023, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Brian MacWhinney

  7. Automation of Language Sample Analysis

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, July 2023, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Brian MacWhinney, Alyssa Lanzi

  8. DementiaBank: Theoretical Rationale, Protocol, and Illustrative Analyses

    Article • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, March 2023, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Matthew Cohen, Alyssa Lanzi, Anna Saylor, Brian MacWhinney

  9. Assessment and Therapy Goal Planning Using Free Computerized Language Analysis Software

    Article • Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, February 2023, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Brian MacWhinney

  10. Validation of an Automated Procedure for Calculating Core Lexicon From Transcripts

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, August 2022, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Brian MacWhinney, Dr. Sarah Grace Dalton

  11. Dynamic Norming and Open Science

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, March 2022, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Brian MacWhinney

  12. The Effects of Right Hemisphere Brain Damage on Question-Asking in Conversation

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, February 2022, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Brian MacWhinney, Adam Jacks, Jamila Minga

  13. The Index of Productive Syntax: Psychometric Properties and Suggested Modifications

    Article • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, January 2022, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Brian MacWhinney

  14. A Comparison of Manual Versus Automated Quantitative Production Analysis of Connected Speech

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, April 2021, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Brian MacWhinney, Dr Joel B Greenhouse, Saketh Katta

  15. Assessing Discourse in Aphasia

    Article • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, February 2021, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Angela C Roberts, Kris Brock, Tyson Harmon, Si On Yoon, Dr Charalambos Themistocleous, Manaswita Dutta, Amy Ramage, Katharine Aveni, Brian MacWhinney

  16. Improving Automatic IPSyn Coding

    Article • Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, October 2020, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Brian MacWhinney

  17. Automation of the Northwestern Narrative Language Analysis System

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, June 2020, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Brian MacWhinney, Dr. Cynthia Thompson

  18. Use of Computerized Language Analysis to Assess Child Language

    Article • Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, April 2020, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Brian MacWhinney

  19. Communicative Strengths in Severe Aphasia: The Famous People Protocol and Its Value in Planning Treatment

    Article • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, August 2019, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr Audrey L Holland, Brian MacWhinney

  20. Patterns of early conversational recovery for people with traumatic brain injury and their communication partners

    Article • Brain Injury, February 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Brian MacWhinney, Dr Audrey L Holland, Leanne Togher

  21. Discourse recovery after severe traumatic brain injury: exploring the first year

    Article • Brain Injury, November 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Audrey L Holland, Brian MacWhinney, Leanne Togher

  22. Are specific generative and emergentist approaches to language attrition necessarily incompatible?

    Article • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, December 2017, John Benjamins

    Brian MacWhinney

  23. Discourse Characteristics in Aphasia Beyond the Western Aphasia Battery Cutoff

    Article • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, August 2017, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr Audrey L Holland, Dr. Sarah Grace Dalton, Brian MacWhinney

  24. Automated Proposition Density Analysis for Discourse in Aphasia

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, October 2016, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr Joel B Greenhouse, Dr Audrey L Holland, Kaiyue Hou, Brian MacWhinney

  25. Child Language Data Exchange System Tools for Clinical Analysis

    Article • Seminars in Speech and Language, April 2016, Thieme Publishing Group

    Brian MacWhinney

  26. AphasiaBank as BigData

    Article • Seminars in Speech and Language, February 2016, Thieme Publishing Group

    Brian MacWhinney

  27. Phonological Priming With Nonwords in Children With and Without Specific Language Impairment

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, August 2015, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Brian MacWhinney

  28. Commentary on O’Grady

    Article • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, September 2013, John Benjamins

    Brian MacWhinney