UBC Department of Linguistics

Educational Background

B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1992; M.A., Yale University, 1995; M.Phil., Yale University, 1997; Ph.D., Yale University, 1999

Affiliations

Associate Professor, UBC Department of Linguistics; Senior Researcher, Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT; Director, UBC Interdisciplinary Speech Research Laboratory; Associate Member, UBC Department of Psychology; Associate Member, UBC School of Audiology & Speech Sciences; Member, UBC Institute for Computing, Information & Cognitive Sciences

Areas of Interest

My research and teaching interests have focused mainly on understanding the physical mechanisms of speech production and their interactions with phonetics and phonology in normal, disordered, and children's speech, and across languages, with particular attention to "liquids" and other sounds involving the more dorsal parts of the articulatory apparatus. To this end I have spent much of the last several years developing techniques for applying ultrasound imaging technology to speech, phonetics and phonology research. More recently, I have been developing new protocols for studying haptic (tactile) perception of speech and methods for observing very low-level planning in speech motor behavior. More broadly, I am interested in how people interact with each other and their environment, and how this can inform models of linguistic communication.

Courses Recently Taught

Undergraduate

LING 100, LING 316, LING 433, LING 447B

Graduate

LING 507, LING 508, LING 518

Recent Publications

BOOKS:

Gick, B., D. Derrick and I. Wilson. Articulatory Phonetics. Wiley-Blackwell (contracted for release in 2010).

Szakay, A., Mayer, C., Rogers, B., Gick, B. & Dunham, J. (eds.) (2009) Interlocution: Linguistic structure and human interaction. UBC Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol 24. July 2009.

Lounsbury, F. G. and B. Gick. The Oneida Creation Story, as told by Demus Elm and Harvey Antone. Yorkshire Press and University of South Carolina Press (hardcover) and University of Nebraska Press (softcover). 2000.

ARTICLES:

Campbell, F., B. Gick, I. Wilson and E. Vatikiotis-Bateson. The gestural organization of English /r/: An ultrasound-Optotrack study of timing and magnitude. Language and Speech. In press.

Derrick, D., P. Anderson, B. Gick and S. Green. Characteristics of air puffs produced in English ‘pa’: Data and simulation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 125(4), 2272-2281. 2009.

Bird, S., M. Caldecott, F. Campbell, B. Gick and P. Shaw. Oral-laryngeal coordination in glottalised resonants. Journal of Phonetics. 36(3), 492-507. 2008.

Gick, B., K. Jóhannsdóttir, D. Gibraiel and J. Muehlbauer. Tactile enhancement of auditory and visual speech perception in untrained perceivers. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 123(4), EL72-76 2008.

Gick, B., B. Bernhardt, P. Bacsfalvi & I. Wilson. Ultrasound imaging applications in second language acquisition. In J. Hansen & M. Zampini (eds.) Phonology and Second Language Acquisition. Ch. 11, pp. 309-322. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 2008.

Adler-Bock, M., B. Bernhardt, B. Gick & P. Bacsfalvi. The use of ultrasound in remediation of English /r/ in two adolescents. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 16:2, 128-139. 2007.

Bacsfalvi, P., B. Bernhardt and B. Gick. Electropalatography and ultrasound in vowel remediation for adolescents with hearing impairment. Advances in Speech-Language Pathology. 9:1, 36-45. 2007.

Gick, B., D. Pulleyblank, F. Campbell and P. Mutaka. Low vowels and ATR harmony in Kinande. Phonology. 23:1, 1-20. 2006.

Gick, B. and I. Wilson. Excrescent schwa and vowel laxing: Cross-linguistic responses to conflicting articulatory targets. In L. Goldstein, D. H. Whalen & C. T. Best (eds.) Papers in Laboratory Phonology VIII: Varieties of Phonological Competence. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 635-660. 2006.

Gick, B., F. Campbell, S. Oh and L. Tamburri-Watt. Toward universals in the gestural organization of syllables: A cross-linguistic study of liquids. Journal of Phonetics. 34:1, 49-72. 2006.

Bird, S. and B. Gick. Phonetics: Field methods. In K. Brown (ed.) Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed. Vol 9, pp. 463-467. Oxford: Elsevier Press. 2006.

Bernhardt, B., P. Bacsfalvi, B. Gick, B. Radanov and R. Williams. Exploring the use of electropalatography and ultrasound in speech habilitation. Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, 29:4, 169-182. 2005.

Gick, B., S. Bird and I. Wilson. Techniques for field application of lingual ultrasound imaging. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics. 19:6/7, 503-514. 2005.

Bernhardt, B., B. Gick, P. Bacsfalvi and M. Adler-Bock. Ultrasound in speech therapy with adolescents and adults. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics. 19:6/7, 605-617. 2005.

Shi, R., B. Gick, D. Kanwischer and I. Wilson. Frequency and category factors in the reduction and assimilation of function words. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 34:4, 341-364. 2005.

Gick, B., I. Wilson, K. Koch, and C. Cook. Language-specific articulatory settings: Evidence from inter-utterance rest position. Phonetica, 61:4, 220-233. 2004.

Gick, B. Articulatory correlates of ambisyllabicity in English glides and liquids. In J. Local, R. Ogden and R. Temple (eds.) Papers in Laboratory Phonology VI: Constraints on Phonetic Interpretation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 222-236. 2003.

Bernhardt, B., B. Gick, P. Bacsfalvi and J. Ashdown. Speech habilitation of hard of hearing adolescents using electropalatography and ultrasound as evaluated by trained listeners. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics. 17:3, 199-217. 2003.

Gick, B. The use of ultrasound for linguistic phonetic fieldwork. Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 32:2, 113-122. 2002.

Gick, B., A. M. Kang and D. H. Whalen. MRI evidence for commonality in the post-oral articulations of English vowels and liquids. Journal of Phonetics. 30, 357-371. 2002.

Gick, B. The American intrusive l. American Speech 77, 167-183. 2002.

Gick, B. An X-ray investigation of pharyngeal constriction in American English schwa. Phonetica 59, 38-48. 2002.

Gick, B. A gesture-based account of intrusive consonants in English. Phonology16:1, 29-54. 1999.

Whalen, D. H., B. Gick, M. Kumada and K. Honda. Cricothyroid activity in high and low vowels: Exploring the automaticity of intrinsic F0. Journal of Phonetics 27, 125-142. 1999.