Andy Butcher

Username: Andy Butcher

Participant details

	Network Member	Andrew Butcher
	Organisation/Institution	Flinders University of South Australia
	Department/Centre	Speech Pathology & Audiology
	Lab
	Website	http://www.flinders.edu.au/speechpath/
	Research area	Speech Science and Technology Phonetics
	Research keywords	speech acquisition; phonetics of Australian aboriginal languages

Research Interests

Andy Butcher is Professor of Communication Disorders at Flinders University in Adelaide. 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 worked for many years in the Department of Linguistic Science at the University of Reading, UK and spent 3 years as a research fellow in Linguistics at the ANU before moving to Adelaide in 1993. 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. He has been studying the phonetics of Australian aboriginal languages for over 20 years. His current research is focussed on speech, hearing and language development in Aboriginal children.

Representative Publications

http://www.flinders.edu.au/speechpath/Manly%20final.pdf

http://www.flinders.edu.au/speechpath/Dorsals%20Paper.pdf

Publications page: http://www.flinders.edu.au/speechpath/Staff/andy.htm

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