Dr Ben Rutter, BA, Ph.D
Department of Human Communication Sciences
The University of Sheffield
31 Claremont Crescent
Sheffield
S10 2TA
UK
Tel: +44 (0) 114 222 2413
Fax: +44 (0) 114 273 0547
Biography
I received a BA in Linguistics from the University of York in 2004 and a Ph.D. in Clinical Linguistics from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2008.
Between 2008-2010 I worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Centre and then joined the Department of Human Communication Sciences of the University of Sheffield in September 2010.
Research Interests
- General and clinical phonetics
- Phonological development
- The use of conversational speech for research purposes
- The interface between theoretical phonology and speech-language therapy
- Sociophonetic variation
Professional Activities
- Book Reviews Editor: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics
- Manuscript Reviewer: Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics; International Journal of Speech Language Pathology.
- Member: Acoustical Society of America; Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics; International Phonetic Association
Current Projects
- The acquisition of a sound change in progress (funded by a University of Oklahoma seed grant – completion 2010)
- Phonetic variation and polysemy in child language acquisition (ongoing)
Collaborators
- Martin J. Ball (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
- Nicole Muller (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
- Chris Code (University of Exeter)
Selected Publications
- Rutter, B. (2011). Acoustic analysis of a sound change in progress: /str/ in English. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 41(1).
- Rutter, B. (2011). On the use of the term ‘repair’ and its application to disordered speech. Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders, 1(2).
- Rutter, B. & Ball, M. J. (2011). Psycholinguistic validity and phonological representation. In Guendouzi, J., Loncke, F., and Williams, M. (Eds) The Handbook of Psycholinguistic and Cognitive Processes. Taylor & Francis. Hove: Psychology Press.
- Rutter, B., Klopfenstein, M., Ball, M. J., and Müller, N. (2010). My client’s using non-English sounds! A tutorial in advanced phonetic transcription III: Prosody and Unattested Sounds. Contemporary Issues in Communication Sciences and Disorders.
- Rutter, B. (2009). Repair sequences in dysarthric conversational speech: a study in interactional phonetics. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 23(12), 887-900.
- Ball, M. J., Müller, N. and Rutter, B. (2009). Phonology for Communication Disorders. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.