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
Teaching
Teaching interests
Phonetics and Linguistics, with specific application to: (1) Child Language acquisition (2) Language delay and disorder (3) Australian Aboriginal languages, including Aboriginal English.
Research and supervision
Research expertise
- Linguistics
Publications
Book chapters
Butcher, A.R. (2013). Research methods in phonetic fieldwork. In Jones M.J. and Knight R.-A., ed. The Bloomsbury Companion to Phonetics. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 57-78.
Butcher, A.R. (2012). On the phonetics of long, thin phonologies. In C Donohue, S Ishihara & W Steed, ed. Quantitative approaches to problems in linguistics. Munich, Germany: LINCOM Europa, pp. 133-154. [online]. Available from: http://lincom-shop.eu/shop/article_11165%2BISBN%2B9783862883844/LSPh-08%3A-Quantitative-approaches-to-problems-in-linguistics.html.
Butcher, A.R. (2006). Australian Aboriginal Languages: Consonant-Salient Phonologies and the "Place-of-Articulation Imperative". In Jonathan Harrington, Marija Tabain, ed. Speech Production: Models, Phonetic Processes, and Techniques. New York, USA: Psychology Press, pp. 187-210.
Refereed journal articles
Baker, J., Ben-Tovim, D., Butcher, A.R., Esterman, A. and McLaughlin, K. (2012). Psychosocial risk factors which may differentiate between women with functional voice disorder, organic voice disorder and a control group. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, pp.1-17. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/17549507.2012.721397.
Tabain, M., Fletcher, J. and Butcher, A.R. (2011). An EPG study of palatal consonants in two Australian languages. Language and Speech, 54(2), pp.265-282. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0023830910397502.
Butcher, A.R. (2008). Linguistic aspects of Australian Aboriginal English. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 22(8), pp.625-642. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699200802223535.
Baker, J.E., Ben-Tovim, D.I., Butcher, A.R., Esterman, A.J. and McLaughlin, K.J. (2007). Development of a modified diagnostic classification system for voice disorders with inter-rater reliability study. Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology, 32(3), pp.99-112. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14015430701431192.
Tabain, M., Breen, G. and Butcher, A.R. (2004). VC vs CV syllables: a comparison of Aboriginal languages with English. Journal of The International Phonetic Association, 34(2), pp.175-200. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025100304001719.
Butcher, A.R. and Tabain, M. (2004). On the back of the tongue: dorsal sounds in Australian languages. Phonetica, 61(1), pp.22-52. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000078661.
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), pp.547-557. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699200410001703565.
Book chapters
Butcher, A.R. (2013). Research methods in phonetic fieldwork. In Jones M.J. and Knight R.-A., ed. The Bloomsbury Companion to Phonetics. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 57-78.
Butcher, A.R. (2012). On the phonetics of long, thin phonologies. In C Donohue, S Ishihara & W Steed, ed. Quantitative approaches to problems in linguistics. Munich, Germany: LINCOM Europa, pp. 133-154. [online]. Available from: http://lincom-shop.eu/shop/article_11165%2BISBN%2B9783862883844/LSPh-08%3A-Quantitative-approaches-to-problems-in-linguistics.html.
Butcher, A.R. (2006). Australian Aboriginal Languages: Consonant-Salient Phonologies and the "Place-of-Articulation Imperative". In Jonathan Harrington, Marija Tabain, ed. Speech Production: Models, Phonetic Processes, and Techniques. New York, USA: Psychology Press, pp. 187-210.
Refereed journal articles
Baker, J., Ben-Tovim, D., Butcher, A.R., Esterman, A. and McLaughlin, K. (2012). Psychosocial risk factors which may differentiate between women with functional voice disorder, organic voice disorder and a control group. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, pp.1-17. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/17549507.2012.721397.
Tabain, M., Fletcher, J. and Butcher, A.R. (2011). An EPG study of palatal consonants in two Australian languages. Language and Speech, 54(2), pp.265-282. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0023830910397502.
Butcher, A.R. (2008). Linguistic aspects of Australian Aboriginal English. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 22(8), pp.625-642. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699200802223535.
Baker, J.E., Ben-Tovim, D.I., Butcher, A.R., Esterman, A.J. and McLaughlin, K.J. (2007). Development of a modified diagnostic classification system for voice disorders with inter-rater reliability study. Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology, 32(3), pp.99-112. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14015430701431192.
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), pp.547-557. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699200410001703565.
Butcher, A.R. and Tabain, M. (2004). On the back of the tongue: dorsal sounds in Australian languages. Phonetica, 61(1), pp.22-52. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000078661.
Tabain, M., Breen, G. and Butcher, A.R. (2004). VC vs CV syllables: a comparison of Aboriginal languages with English. Journal of The International Phonetic Association, 34(2), pp.175-200. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025100304001719.
Cayley, A.S., Tindall, A.P., Sampson, W.J. and Butcher, A.R. (2000). Electropalatographic and cephalometric assessment of tongue function in open bite and non-open bite subjects. European Journal of Orthodontics, 22, pp.463-474.
Cayley, A.S., Tindall, A.P., Sampson, W.J. and Butcher, A.R. (2000). Electropalatographic and cephalometric assessment of myofunctional therapy in open-bite subjects. Australian Orthodontic Journal, 16(1), pp.23-33.
Refereed conference papers
Butcher, A.R. (2012). Changes in the formant frequencies of vowels in the speech of South Australian females 1945-2010. In F Cox, K Demuth, S Lin, K Miles, S Palethorpe, J Shaw & I Yuen, ed. Proceedings of the 14th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. 14th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. pp. 69-72. [online]. Available from: http://assta.org/sst/SST-12/WELCOME.PDF.
Stoakes, H., Butcher, A.R., Fletcher, J. and Tabain, M. (2012). Place or manner as perceptually salient in Yolngu Matha: A closed set 4-AFC listening task in quiet and in noise. In F Cox, K Demuth, S Lin, K Miles, S Palethorpe, J Shaw & I Yuen, ed. Proceedings of the 14th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. 14th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. pp. 225-228. [online]. Available from: http://assta.org/sst/SST-12/WELCOME.PDF.
Stoakes, H.M., Butcher, A., Fletcher, J. and Tabain, M. (2011). Long term average speech spectra in Yolngu Matha and Pitjantjatjara speaking females and males. In N. Barroso, K. López de Ipiña, A. Ezeiza, C. Hernández, N. Ezeiza, O. Barroso, U. Susperregi, S. Barroso, ed. Proceedings of Interspeech 2011: The 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association. The 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association. pp. 1897-1900.
Burnham, D., Estival, D., Fazio, S., Viethen, J., Cox, F., Dale, R., et al. (2011). Building an audio-visual corpus of Australian English: large corpus collection with an economical portable and replicable Black Box. In Piero Cosi, Renato De Mori, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, and Roberto Pieraccini, ed. Interspeech 2011, Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association. 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association. pp. 841-844. [online]. Available from: http://www.isca-speech.org/archive/interspeech_2011/i11_0841.html.
Wagner, M., Tran, D., Togneri, R., Rose, P., Powers, D.M., Onslow, M., et al. (2010). The Big Australian Speech Corpus (The Big ASC). In Marija Tabain, Janet Fletcher, David Grayden, John Hajek and Andy Butcher, ed. Proceedings of the 13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. 13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. pp. 166-170. [online]. Available from: http://assta.org/sst/SST-10/SST2010/PDF/AUTHOR/ST100044.PDF.
Fletcher, J.M., Butcher, A.R., Loakes, D.E. and Stoakes, H.M. (2010). Aspects of nasal realization and the place of articulation imperative in Bininj Gun-wok. In M. Tabain, J. Fletcher, D Grayden , J Hajek & A Butcher, ed. Proceedings of the 13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. 13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. pp. 78-81. [online]. Available from: http://assta.org/sst/SST-10/SST2010/PDF/AUTHOR/ST100074.PDF.
Burnham, D.K., Ambikairajah, E., Arciuli, J., Bennamoun, M., Best, C.T., Bird, S., et al. (2009). A blueprint for a comprehensive Australian English auditory-visual speech corpus. In Michael Haugh, Kate Burridge, Jean Mulder, and Pam Peters, ed. Selected proceedings of the 2008 HCSNet workshop on designing the Australian national corpus?: mustering languages. Workshop on Designing the Australian National Corpus. pp. 96-107. [online]. Available from: http://www.lingref.com/cpp/ausnc/2008/index.html.
Loakes, D.E., Butcher, A.R., Fletcher, J.M. and Stoakes, H. (2008). Phonetically pre-stopped laterals in Australian languages: a preliminary investigation of Warlpiri. In J Fletcher, D Loakes, R Göcke, D Burnham & M Wagner, ed. Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association. Interspeech 2008. pp. 90-93.
Butcher, A.R. and Anderson, V.B. (2008). The vowels of Australian Aboriginal English. In J Fletcher, D Loakes, R Göcke, D Burnham & M Wagner, ed. Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association. Interspeech 2008. pp. 347-350.
Fletcher, J.M., Loakes, D.E. and Butcher, A.R. (2008). Coarticulation in nasal and lateral clusters in Warlpiri. In J Fletcher, D Loakes, R Göcke, D Burnham & M Wagner, ed. Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association. Interspeech 2008. pp. 86-89.
Fletcher, J., Stoakes, H., Loakes, D. and Butcher, A.R. (2007). Spectral and durational properties of vowels in Kunwinjku. In J. TROUVAIN, W.J. BARRY, ed. Proceedings of the16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. pp. 937-940. [online]. Available from: http://www.icphs2007.de/conference/Papers/1695/1695.pdf.
Stoakes, H., Fletcher, J. and Butcher, A.R. (2007). An acoustic and articulatory study of Bininj Gun-wok stop consonants. In J. TROUVAIN, W.J. BARRY, ed. Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. pp. 869-872. [online]. Available from: http://www.icphs2007.de/conference/Papers/1413/1413.pdf.
Stoakes, H., Fletcher, J. and Butcher, A.R. (2006). Articulatory variability of intervocalic stop articulation in Bininj Gun-Wok. In Paul Warren and Catherine I. Watson, ed. Proceedings of the 11th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. 11th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. pp. 182-186. [online]. Available from: http://www.assta.org/sst/2006/sst2006-98.pdf.
Butcher, A.R. and Harrington, J. (2003). An acoustic and articulatory analysis of focus and the word/morpheme boundary distinction in Warlpiri. In Palethorpe S & Tabain M, ed. Proceedings of The 6th International Seminar on Speech Production. The 6th International Seminar on Speech Production. pp. 19-24. [online]. Available from: http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/events/2003/issp2003/abstractsub.htm.
Butcher, A.R. and Harrington, J. (2003). An instrumental analysis of focus and juncture in Warlpiri. In Sol' MJ, Recasens D & Romero J, ed. Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences Barcelona 3-9 August 2003. pp. 321-324.
Fletcher, J. and Butcher, A.R. (2003). Local and global influences on vowel formants in three Australian languages. In Sol' MJ, Recasens D & Romero J, ed. Proceedings of 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. pp. 905-908.
Conference publications
Tabain, M., Beare, R. and Butcher, A.R. (2011). Spectral analysis of stop bursts in Pitjantjatjara. In Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. pp. 1934-1937.
Wong, B., Brebner, C.M., McCormack, P. and Butcher, A. (2012). Word production inconsistency of adolescents with Singaporean-English speaking Down Syndrome aged 13-18 years. In Speech Pathology Australia National Conference Darwin June 2011. Speech Pathology Australia National Conference Darwin June 2011.
Butcher, A.R. (2006). Formant frequencies of /hVd/ vowels in the speech of South Australian Females. In Proceedings of the 11th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. 11th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. pp. 449-453. [online]. Available from: http://www.assta.org/sst/2006/sst2006-116.pdf.
Butcher, A.R. (2003). Australian Aboriginal languages?: consonant salient phonologies and the "place-of-articulation imperative" [abstract]. In Palethorpe, STabain, M, ed. 6th International seminar on speech production programme and abstracts. 6th International Seminar on Speech Production.
Butcher, A.R. (2002). Forensic phonetics: issues in speaker identification evidence. In Inaugural conference: expert evidence: causation, proof and presentation. Inaugural conference: expert evidence: causation, proof and presentation.
Fletcher, J.M. and Butcher, A.R. (2002). Vowel dispersion in two northern Australian languages: Dalabon and Bininj Gun-wok. In Bow, C., ed. 9th Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. SST 2002. pp. 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
