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Bryan Gick
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Latest papers
Velum movement in speech and inter-speech pause intervals: a cineradiographic study of French and English speech.
Phonetica · 2025 · senior author
Tonguedness in speech: Lateral bias in lingual bracing.
JASA express letters · 2024 · senior author
Ethnokinesiology: towards a neuromechanical understanding of cultural differences in movement.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024
Latest funding
- $125,000
Affordable and Effective Diagnostic Tool for Early Detection of Dysphagia
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $132,000
Posture in oromotor control
NSERC · 2021 · Principal investigator
- $1,065,000
Ensuring Full Literacy in a Multicultural and Digital World
SSHRC · 2020 · Co-investigator
34 publications.
Velum movement in speech and inter-speech pause intervals: a cineradiographic study of French and English speech.
Islam J, de Boer G, Gick B
Tonguedness in speech: Lateral bias in lingual bracing.
Liu Y, Islam J, Radford K, Tkachman O, Gick B
Ethnokinesiology: towards a neuromechanical understanding of cultural differences in movement.
Ting LH, Gick B, Kesar TM, Xu J
Postural adaptation to microgravity underlies fine motor impairment in astronauts' speech.
Shamei A, Sóskuthy M, Stavness I, Gick B
Reduction of vowel space in Alzheimer's disease.
Shamei A, Liu Y, Gick B
Cortical control of posture in fine motor skills: evidence from inter-utterance rest position.
Easthope E, Shamei A, Liu Y, Gick B, Fels S
Publisher Correction: Postural adaptation to microgravity underlies fine motor impairment in astronauts' speech.
Shamei A, Sóskuthy M, Stavness I, Gick B
Robustness of lateral tongue bracing under bite block perturbation.
Liu Y, Luo S, Łuszczuk M, Mayer C, Shamei A, de Boer G, Gick B
Gait change in tongue movement.
Derrick D, Gick B
Quantal biomechanical effects in speech postures of the lips.
Gick B, Mayer C, Chiu C, Widing E, Roewer-Després F, Fels S, Stavness I
Affordable and Effective Diagnostic Tool for Early Detection of Dysphagia
Principal investigators: Gick, Bryan
Posture in oromotor control
Principal investigators: Gick, Bryan
Keywords: speech production; emotional expression; oromotor control; biomechanical simulation; posture
Ensuring Full Literacy in a Multicultural and Digital World
Keywords: literacy; reading; language learning; culture; technology; new media; behaviour; neuroimaging; computational modeling; Indigenous; immigrant; Canada's official languages
Virtually Speaking: How Phonetic Information Affects Communication in Virtual Reality
Principal investigators: Gick, Bryan
Keywords: phonetics; multimodal perception; communication; virtual reality; avatars; belonging; emotion; social relationships;
Ensuring Full Literacy in a Multicultural and Digital World
Keywords: literacy; reading; language learning; culture; technology; new media; behaviour; neuroimaging; computational modeling; Indigenous; immigrant; Canada's official languages
Control strategies for articulatory speech synthesis for natural user interfaces
Principal investigators: Fels, Sidney
West African vowel systems: the emergence of phonological patterns
Principal investigators: Pulleyblank, Douglas
Keywords: linguistics; phonology; phonetics; African languages; Kru; Gur; Kainji; Ivory Coast; Ghana; Nigeria; West Africa
Neuromuscular Modules in Speech Production: Biomechanics and Simulation
Principal investigators: Gick, Bryan
Articulatory Speech Synthesis for Natural User Interfaces
Principal investigators: Penn, Gerald
Biomechanics of Speech Motor Modules
Principal investigators: Gick, Bryan
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Bryan Gick and Ian Stavness: 8 shared papers
- Sidney Fels and Ian Stavness: 7 shared papers
- Sidney Fels and Bryan Gick: 3 shared papers
- Bryan Gick and Jahurul Islam: 2 shared papers
- Mark Scott and Bryan Gick: 1 shared paper
- Sidney Fels and Sheldon Green: 1 shared paper
- Sheldon Green and Bryan Gick: 1 shared paper
- Department of Linguistics
- Mechanical Engineering
- Computer Science
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
Co-authors at University of British Columbia, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Ian Stavness
Computer Science
8 shared papers, latest 2023
Sidney Fels
Electrical and Computer Engineering
3 shared papers, latest 2023
Jahurul Islam
Department of Linguistics
2 shared papers, latest 2025
Mark Scott
Mechanical Engineering
1 shared papers, latest 2013
Sheldon Green
Mechanical Engineering
1 shared papers, latest 2009
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