Dr Ben Rutter
BA, Ph.D
Division of Human Communication Sciences, Health Sciences School
Lecturer in Clinical Linguistics
b.rutter@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 2413
+44 114 222 2413
362 Mushroom Lane
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Dr Ben Rutter
Division of Human Communication Sciences, Health Sciences School
362 Mushroom Lane
Sheffield
S10 2TS
Division of Human Communication Sciences, Health Sciences School
362 Mushroom Lane
Sheffield
S10 2TS
- Profile
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I joined the University of Sheffield in 2010 and am now a Lecturer in Clinical Linguistics. I hold an undergraduate degree in linguistics from the University of York and a Ph.D. in Clinical Linguistics from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
My research focuses on the role of linguistics and phonetics in speech and language therapy and I am particularly interested in the analysis of natural conversation. I teach in a wide range of areas including phonetics, phonology, linguistics and research methods. I am currently Admissions Lead for the Department of Human Communication Sciences.
- Research interests
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- Clinical linguistics and phonetics
- Dysarthria and the motor speech disorders
- Interactional phonetics and its role in speech and language therapy
- The health humanities
- Publications
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Books
Journal articles
- The space between words: on the description of Parkinson’s disease in Jonathan Franzen’s 'The Corrections'. Medical Humanities. View this article in WRRO
- Functions of sequential placement: Conversational co-construction of a single nonverbal contribution. Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders, 8(1), 96-120. View this article in WRRO
- The acquisition of newly emerging sociophonetic variation: /str-/ in American English. Journal of Child Language, 1.
- Reduced breath support in a speaker with dysarthria secondary to multiple sclerosis: Its impact on conversational speech. Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders, 4(1).
- Acoustic analysis of a sound change in progress: /str/ in English.. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 41(1).
- My Client Is Using Non-English Sounds! A Tutorial in Advanced Phonetic Transcription Part III: Prosody and Unattested Sounds. Contemporary Issues in Communication Science and Disorders, 37(Fall), 111-122.
- My Client Is Using Non-English Sounds! A Tutorial in Advanced Phonetic Transcription Part II: Vowels and Diacritics. Contemporary Issues in Communication Science and Disorders, 37(Fall), 103-110.
- My Client Is Using Non-English Sounds! A Tutorial in Advanced Phonetic Transcription. Part 1: Consonants. Contemporary Issues in Communication Science and Disorders, 36(Fall), 133-141.
- The importance of narrow phonetic transcription for highly unintelligible speech: Some examples. Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology, 34(2), 84-90.
- Repair sequences in dysarthric conversational speech: A study in interactional phonetics. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 23(12), 887-900.
- Book Review. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 21(7), 575-576.
- A profiling approach to intelligibility problems. Advances in Speech Language Pathology, 8(3), 176-189.
- On the use of the term ‘repair’ and its application to disordered conversational speech. Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders, 1(2).
Chapters
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Editorial board member: Journal of Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics
- Manuscript Reviewer: Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica; International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders; Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics; International Journal of Speech Language Pathology; Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology.
- Member: Acoustical Society of America; Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics; International Phonetic Association