Flinders University
Prof Andy Butcher
Prof
Andy
Butcher
Flinders University
http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/andy.butcher
| Position/s: | Professor of Communication Disorders Speech Pathology and Audiology |
| Phone: | +61 8 82045938 |
| Email: | andy.butcher@flinders.edu.au |
| Location: | Speech Pathology (7E:542) |
| Postal address: | GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia |
Biography
1993- Foundation Professor of Communication Disorders, School of Medicine, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.
1993-2000 Head, Department of Speech Pathology, School of Medicine, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.
1988-1991 Research fellow on ANU research project "Phonetics of Australian Languages", Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
1979-1993 Lecturer in Phonetics, Department of Linguistic Science, University of Reading, Reading, UK.
1977-1978 Lecturer in General Linguistics and Phonetics, School of Speech Therapy, Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh, UK.
1972-1977 Research assistant on German Research Council project "Phonetic Manifestation of Speech Styles" Institut für Phonetik, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel, Germany.
Qualifications
1998 Grad Cert Tert Ed, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.
1981 Dr phil (magna cum laude) in Phonetics, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel, Germany. Thesis title: Aspects of the speech pause: phonetic correlates and communicative functions.
1976 MPhil in Phonetics and Linguistics, University of London. Thesis title: The influence of the native language on the perception of vowel quality.
1970 MA (Hons) in French and General Linguistics with Phonetics, University of Edinburgh.
Honours, awards and grants
ARC Discovery Project Grant
2005-2007 "An instrumental investigation of consonant sequences in a northern Australian language" (with J Fletcher, Uni of Melbourne)
This project investigated the consonant sounds of a northern Australian language, Bininj Gun-wok, by measuring both the acoustic speech signal and various physiological parameters, using electropalatography and aerometry.
ARC Discovery Project Grant
2007-2009 "The relationship between speech production and perception in Australian language speakers: implications for speech development and learning in Aboriginal children" (with J Fletcher, U Melbourne and M Tabain, La Trobe U)
This project is studying the potential effects of hearing loss and instruction in a foreign language (English) on the development of speech and literacy in children who speak an Australian Aboriginal language.
ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities Grant
2010 "The Big Australian Speech Corpus: An audio visual speech corpus of Australian English" (with DK Burnham, UWS; FM Cox, Macquarie U; JM Fletcher, U Melbourne and many others too numerous to mention)
Contemporary speech science and technology are driven by the availability of large speech corpora. While audio databases exist for languages spoken in America, Europe and Japan, there is currently no large auditory visual database of spoken language, and certainly not one for Australian English. Here we will establish the Big Australian Speech Corpus, which will support a speech science research and development using Australian English and facilitate the development of Australian speech technology applications from automatic speech recognition and text to speech synthesis used in taxi and other ordering services, to hearing prostheses and talking head aids for learning impaired children, and a range of security and forensic applications.
Key responsibilities
Course Coordinator for the Bachelor of Speech Pathology
Research and consultancy
Postgraduate research supervision
2006- Larissa Noll (MSc part time) - Validation of the use of a multichannel intraluminal impedance device in the detection of bolus flow and bolus clearance in infants and children with dysphagia (co-supervisor with Dr I Scholten)
2004- Hywel Stoakes (PhD full time), University of Melbourne - An instrumental study of consonant articulations in a northern Australian language - Bininj Gun-wok (co-supervisor with Dr J. Fletcher)
2001-6 Janet Baker (PhD full time) - Psycho-social aspects of voice pathology (co-supervisor with Prof D Ben Tovim)
Publications
Book chapters
Butcher, A.R., 2006. Australian Aboriginal Languages: Consonant-Salient Phonologies and the 'Place-of-Articulation Imperative'. In Speech Production: Models, Phonetic Processes, and Techniques. New York, USA: Psychology Press, pp. 187-210.
Refereed journal articles
Tabain, M., Fletcher, J.M., & Butcher, A.R., 2011. An EPG study of palatal consonants in two Australian languages. LANGUAGE AND SPEECH, 54, 265-282.
Butcher, A.R., 2008. Linguistic aspects of Australian Aboriginal English. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 22(8), 625-642.
Baker, J.E., Ben-Tovim, D.I., Butcher, A.R., Esterman, A.J., & McLaughlin, K.J., 2007. Development of a modified diagnostic classification system for voice disorders with inter-rater reliability study. Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology, 32(3), 99-112.
Tabain, M., Breen, G., & Butcher, A.R., 2004. VC vs CV syllables: a comparison of Aboriginal languages with English. Journal of The International Phonetic Association, 34(2), 175-200.
Butcher, A.R. & Tabain, M., 2004. On the back of the tongue: dorsal sounds in Australian languages. Phonetica, 61(1), 22-52.
Butcher, A.R., 2004. 'Fortis/Lenis' Revisited one more time: The aerodynamics of some oral stop contrasts in three continents. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 18(6-8), 547-557.
Cayley, A.S., Tindall, A.P., Sampson, W.J., & Butcher, A.R., 2000. Electropalatographic and cephalometric assessment of tongue function in open bite and non-open bite subjects. European Journal of Orthodontics, 22, 463-474.
Cayley, A.S., Tindall, A.P., Sampson, W.J., & Butcher, A.R., 2000. Electropalatographic and cephalometric assessment of myofunctional therapy in open-bite subjects. Australian Orthodontic Journal, 16(1), 23-33.
Refereed conference papers
Fletcher, J.M., Butcher, A.R., Loakes, D.E., & Stoakes, H.M., 2011. Aspects of nasal realization and the place of articulation imperative in Bininj Gun-wok. Proceedings of the 13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, 78-81.
Book chapters
Butcher, A.R., 2006. Australian Aboriginal Languages: Consonant-Salient Phonologies and the 'Place-of-Articulation Imperative'. In Speech Production: Models, Phonetic Processes, and Techniques. New York, USA: Psychology Press, pp. 187-210.
Refereed journal articles
Tabain, M., Fletcher, J.M., & Butcher, A.R., 2011. An EPG study of palatal consonants in two Australian languages. LANGUAGE AND SPEECH, 54, 265-282.
Butcher, A.R., 2008. Linguistic aspects of Australian Aboriginal English. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 22(8), 625-642.
Baker, J.E., Ben-Tovim, D.I., Butcher, A.R., Esterman, A.J., & McLaughlin, K.J., 2007. Development of a modified diagnostic classification system for voice disorders with inter-rater reliability study. Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology, 32(3), 99-112.
Butcher, A.R. & Tabain, M., 2004. On the back of the tongue: dorsal sounds in Australian languages. Phonetica, 61(1), 22-52.
Butcher, A.R., 2004. 'Fortis/Lenis' Revisited one more time: The aerodynamics of some oral stop contrasts in three continents. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 18(6-8), 547-557.
Tabain, M., Breen, G., & Butcher, A.R., 2004. VC vs CV syllables: a comparison of Aboriginal languages with English. Journal of The International Phonetic Association, 34(2), 175-200.
Cayley, A.S., Tindall, A.P., Sampson, W.J., & Butcher, A.R., 2000. Electropalatographic and cephalometric assessment of tongue function in open bite and non-open bite subjects. European Journal of Orthodontics, 22, 463-474.
Cayley, A.S., Tindall, A.P., Sampson, W.J., & Butcher, A.R., 2000. Electropalatographic and cephalometric assessment of myofunctional therapy in open-bite subjects. Australian Orthodontic Journal, 16(1), 23-33.
Refereed conference papers
Fletcher, J.M., Butcher, A.R., Loakes, D.E., & Stoakes, H.M., 2011. Aspects of nasal realization and the place of articulation imperative in Bininj Gun-wok. Proceedings of the 13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, 78-81.
Stoakes, H.M., Butcher, A.R., Fletcher, J.M., & Tabain, M., 2011. Long term average speech spectra in Yolngu Matha and Pitjantjatjara speaking females and males. Proceedings of Interspeech 2011: The 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 1897-1900.
Tabain, M., Beare, R., & Butcher, A.R., 2011. Spectral analysis of stop bursts in Pitjantjatjara. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.
Burnham, D.K., Estival, D., Fazio, S., Viethen, J., Cox, F.M., Dale, R., Cassidy, S., Epps, J.R., Togneri, R., Wagner, M., et al., 2011. Building an audio-visual corpus of Australian English: large corpus collection with an economical portable and replicable Black Box. Interspeech 2011, Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 841-844.
Wagner, M., Tran, D., Togneri, R., Rose, P., Powers, D.M., Onslow, M., Loakes, D.E., Lewis, T.W., Kuratate, T., Kinoshita, Y., et al., 2010. The Big Australian Speech Corpus (The Big ASC). Proceedings of the 13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, 166-170.
Burnham, D.K., Ambikairajah, E., Arciuli, J., Bennamoun, M., Best, C.T., Bird, S., Butcher, A.R., Cassidy, S., Chetty, G., Cox, F.M., et al., 2009. A blueprint for a comprehensive Australian English auditory-visual speech corpus. Selected proceedings of the 2008 HCSNet workshop on designing the Australian national corpus : mustering languages, 96-107.
Loakes, D.E., Butcher, A.R., Fletcher, J.M., & Stoakes, H., 2008. Phonetically pre-stopped laterals in Australian languages: a preliminary investigation of Warlpiri. Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 90-93.
Butcher, A.R. & Anderson, V.B., 2008. The vowels of Australian Aboriginal English. Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 347-350.
Fletcher, J.M., Loakes, D.E., & Butcher, A.R., 2008. Coarticulation in nasal and lateral clusters in Warlpiri. Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 86-89.
Fletcher, J.M., Stoakes, H.M., Loakes, D.E., & Butcher, A.R., 2007. Spectral and durational properties of vowels in Kunwinjku. Proceedings of the16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 937-940.
Stoakes, H.M., Fletcher, J.M., & Butcher, A.R., 2007. An acoustic and articulatory study of Bininj Gun-wok stop consonants. Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 869-872.
Stoakes, H., Fletcher, J., & Butcher, A.R., 2006. Articulatory variability of intervocalic stop articulation in Bininj Gun-Wok. Proceedings of the 11th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, 182-186.
Fletcher, J. & Butcher, A.R., 2003. Local and global influences on vowel formants in three Australian languages. Proceedings of 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 905-908.
Butcher, A.R. & Harrington, J., 2003. An acoustic and articulatory analysis of focus and the word/morpheme boundary distinction in Warlpiri. Proceedings of The 6th International Seminar on Speech Production, 19-24.
Butcher, A.R. & Harrington, J., 2003. An instrumental analysis of focus and juncture in Warlpiri. Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 321-324.
Conference publications
Butcher, A.R., 2006. Formant frequencies of /hVd/ vowels in the speech of South Australian Females. Proceedings of the 11th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, 449-453.
Butcher, A.R., 2003. Australian Aboriginal languages : consonant salient phonologies and the 'place-of-articulation imperative' [abstract]. 6th International seminar on speech production programme and abstracts.
Butcher, A.R., 2002. Forensic phonetics: issues in speaker identification evidence. Inaugural conference: expert evidence: causation, proof and presentation.
Fletcher, J.M. & Butcher, A.R., 2002. Vowel dispersion in two northern Australian languages: Dalabon and Bininj Gun-wok. 9th Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, 343-348.
Professional and community engagement
Expertise for media contact
- Speech Production respiration, voice and articulation
- Speech Acquisition normal development
- Speech Disorders in children
- Accents regional and social variation in pronunciation
- Australian Aboriginal Languages especially pronunciation
- Pronunciation
Subject/s
- Accents
- English Language
- Language/Linguistics
- Speech
