Dr. Bryan Gick
Academic Co-Director, ELIE Research co-Lead, Professor, Simulating Languaging Bodies co-Lead
Department of Linguistics
Faculty of Arts
Research Themes: Evolving Language in an Information Economy, The Communicating Mind and Body
Bryan Gick is the director of UBC’s Interdisciplinary Speech Research Laboratory (ISRL). His overarching research focus is on how people interact with each other and their environment, and how this interaction can inform models of linguistic communication. Bryan has studied this by exploring the physical mechanisms of speech production and their interactions with perception, phonology and phonetics in normal, disordered, and children’s speech, and across languages. In the course of this work, he and his collaborators have developed techniques for applying ultrasound imaging technology to speech research, protocols for studying haptic (tactile) perception of speech, methods for observing low-level planning in speech motor behaviour, and biomechanical simulations.
Research Interests
How people interact with each other and their environment, and how this interaction can inform models of linguistic communication; the physical mechanisms of speech production and their interactions with perception, phonology and phonetics in normal, disordered, and children’s speech, and across languages.
