Allied Health Sciences - The College of Allied Health

Ben Rutter, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

E-mail Ben Rutter
(405) 271-4214 ext. 46069

Ph.D., Applied Language and Speech Sciences, The University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2008

B.A., Linguistics, The University of York, 2004

Rutter, B. (in preparation) Data recording. In Müller, N. and Ball, M. J. (Eds.), Guide to Research Methods in Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics. New York: Wiley-Blackwell. (Under contract.)

Ball, M. J., Müller, N., Klopfenstein, M. and Rutter, B. (forthcoming 2010) My client’s using non-English sounds! A tutorial in advanced phonetic transcription. Part 2: Vowels and Diacritics. Contemporary Issues in Communication Sciences and Disorders.

Rutter, B. and Ball, M. J. (forthcoming 2010) Psycholinguistic validity and phonological representation. In Guendouzi, J., Loncke, F. and Williams, M. (Eds) The Handbook of Psycholinguistic & Cognitive processes. Hove: Psychology Press.

Rutter, B., Klopfenstein, M., Ball, M. J., and Müller, N. (forthcoming 2010) My client’s using non-English sounds! A tutorial in advanced phonetic transcription. Part 3: 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. Hove: Psychology Press.

Ball, M. J., Müller, N., Rutter, B. and Klopfenstein, M. (2009) My client’s using non-English sounds! A tutorial in advanced phonetic transcription. Part 1: Consonants. Contemporary Issues in Communication Sciences and Disorders, 36, 133-141.

Ball, M. J., Müller, N., Klopfenstein, M. and Rutter, B. (2009) The importance of narrow phonetic transcription for highly unintelligible speech:  Some examples. Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology, 34, 84-90.

Ball, M. J. Rutter, B. and Code, C. (2008) Phonological Analyses of a case of Progressive Speech Degeneration. Asia-Pacific Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing, 11, 305-312.

Müller, N., Ball, M. J. and Rutter, N. (2008) An idiosyncratic case of /r/ disorder: Application of principles from Systemic Phonology and Systemic Functional Linguistics.  Asia-Pacific Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing, 11, 269-281.

Müller, N., Ball, M. J. and Rutter, B. (2006) A Profiling Approach to Intelligibility Problems. Advances in Speech-Language Pathology, 8, 176-189.

Rutter, B. (2009). The acquisition of a sound change in progress. College of Allied Health Seed Grant, $2166

Professional Program
CSD 3333: Phonetics
CSD 3443: Foundations of Speech-Language Pathology
CSD 3453: Introduction to Articulation Disorders
CSD 6533: Advanced Language Science

• Intelligibility issues in the motor speech disorders
• Speech acoustics
• Clinical phonology
• Interactional phonetics