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Andy Butcher is Professor of Communication Disorders and Research Coordinator. He has degrees in Linguistics and Phonetics from the Universities of Edinburgh and London and a PhD in Phonetics from the University of Kiel, Germany. He joined the Department in 1993, having taught for many years on the Linguistics and Language Pathology Programme at the University of Reading, UK.

He is co-ordinator of the second-year topic 'Acoustic Phonetics' and also co-ordinates the B Sp Path Honours program and the postgraduate research programs in the Department.

Andy's main areas of research involve the instrumental measurement of articulatory parameters such as tongue-palate contact, oral and nasal airflow and pressure, vocal fold activity and the acoustic analysis of voice and speech:

• Normal and disordered phonetics and phonology in children, with particular interest in the acquisition and development of the motor control of speech.
• Speech, hearing and language development in Aboriginal children, with particular interest in literacy and other educational outcomes.

He also has an interest in the phonetics of Australian aboriginal languages.

Recent Publications

(links are to pre-publication manuscripts)

Book chapters
BUTCHER AR (in press) Australian Aboriginal languages: consonant-salient phonologies and the ‘place-of-articulation imperative’. In JM HARRINGTON & M TABAIN (eds): Speech Production: Models, Phonetic Processes and Techniques. New York: Psychology Press.

BUTCHER AR (1996) Levels of representation in the acquisition of phonology: evidence from ‘before and after’ speech. In B DODD, R CAMPBELL & L WORRALL (eds): Evaluating Theories of Language: evidence from disordered communication. London: Whurr Publishers, 55-73.

BUTCHER AR (1995) The phonetics of neutralisation: the case of Australian coronals. In J WINDSOR LEWIS (ed) Studies in General and English Phonetics. Essays in honour of Professor J.D. O’Connor. London: Routledge, 10-38.

BUTCHER AR (1994) Disorders of Language, Phonological. In: RE ASHER & JMY SIMPSON (eds): The Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics, Vol 2, 1014-1022. Oxford: Pergamon.

Journal articles
TABAIN M, BREEN JG & BUTCHER AR (2004) VC vs. CV syllables: a comparison of Aboriginal languages with English. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 34, 175-200.

BUTCHER AR (2004) ‘Fortis/Lenis’ revisited one more time: the aerodynamics of some oral stop contrasts in three continents. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics 18, 547-557.

BUTCHER AR & TABAIN M (2004) On the back of the tongue: contrasting dorsal sounds in Australian languages. Phonetica 61, 22-52.

CAYLEY AS, TINDALL AP, SAMPSON WJ & BUTCHER AR (2000a) Electropalatographic and cephalometric assessment of myofunctional therapy in open bite subjects. Australian Orthodontic Journal 16, 23-33.

CAYLEY AS, TINDALL AP, SAMPSON WJ & BUTCHER AR (2000b) Electropalatographic and cephalometric assessment of tongue function in open bite and non-open bite subjects. European Journal of Orthodontics 22, 463-474.

TABAIN M & BUTCHER AR (1999) Stop consonants in Yanyuwa and Yindjibarndi: locus equation data. Journal of Phonetics 27, 333-357.

Conference Proceedings

BUTCHER AR & HARRINGTON JM (2003a) An instrumental analysis of focus and juncture in Warlpiri. In SOLÉ MJ, RECASENS D & ROMERO J (eds): Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (Barcelona 3-11 August) [CD-ROM] 321-324.

BUTCHER AR & HARRINGTON JM (2003b) An acoustic and articulatory analysis of focus and the word/morpheme boundary distinction in Warlpiri. In PALETHORPE S & TABAIN M (eds): Proceedings of the 6th International Seminar on Speech Production (Sydney 7-10 December) [CD-ROM] 19-24.

FLETCHER J & BUTCHER AR (2003) Local and global influences on vowel formants in three Australian languages. In SOLÉ MJ, RECASENS D & ROMERO J (eds): Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (Barcelona 3-11 August) [CD-ROM] 905-908. BUTCHER AR (2002) Forensic Phonetics: Issues in speaker identification evidence. Paper at the Inaugural International Conference of the Institute of Forensic Studies: “Forensic Evidence: Proof and Presentation”, Prato, Italy 3-5 July [CD-ROM].

FLETCHER J & BUTCHER AR (2002) Vowel dispersion in two northern Australian languages: Dalabon and Bininj Gun-wok. In: BOW C (ed): Proceedings of the 9th Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. Melbourne: Australian Speech Science and Technology Association, 343-348.

BUTCHER AR (1999) What speakers of Australian aboriginal languages do with their velums and why: the phonetics of the nasal/oral contrast. In: JJ Ohala, Y Hasegawa, M Ohala, D.Granville & AC Bailey (eds) Proceedings of the XIVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences Berkeley: ICPhS, 479-482.

JAMES DGH, MCCORMACK PF & BUTCHER AR (1999) Children’s use of phonological processes in the age range of 5 to 7 years. In: S. MCLEOD & L. MCALLISTER (eds): Towards 2000: Embracing change, challenge and choice. Proceedings of the 1999 Speech Pathology Australia national conference. Melbourne: Speech Pathology Australia.

BUTCHER AR (1996a) Some connected speech phenomena in Australian languages: universals and idiosyncrasies. In AP SIMPSON & M PÄTZOLD (eds) Sound Patterns of Connected Speech: Description, Models and Explanation. Proceedings of the symposium held at Kiel University on 14-15 June 1996 (= Arbeitsberichte 31, Institut für Phonetik der Universität Kiel), 83-104.

BUTCHER AR (1996b) Getting the voice line-up right: analysis of a multiple auditory confrontation. In: P. MCCORMACK & A. RUSSELL (eds): Proceedings of the 6th Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. Canberra: Australian Speech Science and Technology Association, 97-102.

BLIGHT C, BUTCHER AR & MCCORMACK P (1996) Nasal airflow measures pre- and post-tonsillectomy. In: P. MCCORMACK & A. RUSSELL (eds): Proceedings of the 6th Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. Canberra: Australian Speech Science and Technology Association, 367-371.

BYRNE B, BUTCHER AR & MCCORMACK P (1996) The speech rhythm of Vietnamese speakers of English. In: P. MCCORMACK & A. RUSSELL (eds): Proceedings of the 6th Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. Canberra: Australian Speech Science and Technology Association, 427-432.

BUTCHER AR (1994) On the phonetics of small vowel systems: evidence from Australian languages. In: R TOGNERI (ed): Proceedings of the 5th Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. Canberra: Australian Speech Science and Technology Association, Vol I, 28-33.

... and by popular request:
BUTCHER AR & REID N (1989) Redressing the balance on Australian stop contrasts: comments on Austin's (1988) “Phonological voicing contrastsin Australian Aboriginal languages”. Unpublished MS, Dept of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, ANU.

 

 

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