Donald James Derrick's Academic CV


New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain & Behaviour
University of Canterbury
Private Bag, 4800 Christchurch, 8140
New Zealand
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 x 8321
 
and
 
MARCS Institute
Bankstown Campus, Bldg 1
Locked Bag 1797
University of Western Sydney
PENRITH NSW 2751
Australia
Phone: +61 2 9772 6612
 
donald.derrick@gmail.com
http://www.ece.ubc.ca/ ~ donaldd

EDUCATION

PhD 2011 University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, CA
Department of Linguistics
MA 1997 Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, CA
Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology
BA 1995 Saint Mary's University, Halifax, NS, CA
Department of Anthropology

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Gick, B., Wilson, I., and Derrick, D. (2013). Articulatory Phonetics. Blackwell Publishing. Final draft complete April 31, 2012. Contracted for release in January 2013.

Journal Articles

Stavness, I., Gick, B., Derrick, D., and Fels, S. (2012). Biomechanical modeling of English /r/ variants. Journal of The Acoustical Society of America - Express Letters, 131(5):EL355-EL360.

Derrick, D. and Gick, B. (2011). Individual variation in english flaps and taps: A case of categorical phonetics. Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 56(3):307-319.

Gick, B., Ikegami, Y., and Derrick, D. (2010). The temporal window of audio-tactile integration in speech perception. Journal of The Acoustical Society of America - Express Letters, 128(5):EL342-EL346.
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Derrick, D. and Archambault, D. (2010). Treeform: Explaining and exploring grammar through syntax trees. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 25(1):53-66. doi: 10.1093/llc/fqp031.
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Gick, B. and Derrick, D. (2009). Aero-tactile integration in speech perception. Nature, 462:502-504. doi:10.1038/nature08572.
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Derrick, D., Anderson, P., Gick, B., and Green, S. (2009). Characteristics of air puffs produced in English `pa': Experiments and simulations. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 125(4):2272-2281.

Proceedings

Stavness, I., Gick, B., Derrick, D., and Fels, S. (2011). Biomechanical modeling of English /r/ variants. In 9th International Seminar on Speech Production, pages 211-218.

Derrick, D. and Gick, B. (2010). Two phonological segments, one motor event: Evidence for speech-motor disparity from english flap production. Canadian Acoustics, 38(3):128-129.

Derrick, D. and Gick, B. (2010). Full body aero-tactile integration in speech perception. In Proceedings of the 11^th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2010), pages 122-125, Makuhari, Chiba, Japan.
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Derrick, D. and Gick, B. (2008). Quantitative analysis of subphonemic flap/tap variation in nae. Canadian Acoustics, 36-3:162-163.
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Derrick, D. (2007). Syllabification and Blackfoot /s/. In Proceedings of NWLC 22, SFU Working Papers in Linguistics, pages 62-76, SFU, Burnaby, BC.
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Derrick, D. (2006). Duration of Blackfoot /s/. a comparison of assibilant, affricate, singleton, geminate and syllabic /s/ in Blackfoot. In Proceedings of WSCLA 11, UBC Working Papers in Linguistics, UBC, Vancouver, BC.
* Reviewed

Abstracts

Derrick, D. and Gick, B. (2011). Subphonemic planning across syllable, morpheme and word boundaries. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 129(4):2455.

Derrick, D. and Gick, B. (2009). End-state comfort governs kinematic variation in english flap/tap sequences. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 125(4):2569.
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Derrick, D. (2005). Production quality of /r/ and /l/ liquids among Cantonese and Mandarin ESL learners. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 117(4):Pt. 2:2425.
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Vogt, F., Guenther, O., Hannam, A., van dan Doel, K., Lloyd, J., Vihan, L., Chander, R., Lam, J., Wilson, C., Tait, K., Derrick, D., Wilson, I., Jaeger, C., Gick, B., Vatikiotis-Bateson, E., and Fels, S. (2005). ArtiSynth designing a modular 3D articulatory speech synthesizer. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 117(4):Pt. 2:2542.

Computer Tools

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Derrick, D. (2006). TreeForm syntax tree drawing software. sourceforge.net/projects/treeform.
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Bender, E., Boynton, J., Derrick, D., Ngai, V., Palmer, A., Soderland, S., Thompson, J., and Whalen, D. (2006). KMIC: Key morphemes in context, a widget among widgets, digital tools workshop in linguistics. Technical report, Michigan State University, Lansing, Michigan.


PRESENTATIONS

Invited Talks

D. Derrick and B. Gick. Tactile speech perception by everyday perceivers. Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging. University of California, San Francisco. September 18, 2009.
D. Derrick. Aero-tactile Integration in Speech Perception, Department of Speech-Language Pathology, University of Toronto, June 16, 2010.
D. Derrick. Aero-tactile Integration in Speech Perception, Department of Psychology, National University of Singapore, August 10, 2010.

Conference Presentations and Posters

Derrick, D. and Gick, B. (2011). Subphonemic planning across syllable, morpheme and word boundaries. Acoustical Society of America, 161st meeting.

Derrick, D. and Gick, B. (2011). Subphonemic planning across syllable and word boundaries. ISSP 2011, poster.

Stavness, I., Gick, B., Derrick, D., and Fels, S. (2011). Biomechanical modeling of English /r/ variants. ISSP 2011, presentation.

Derrick, D. and Gick, B. (2010). Two phonological segments, one motor event: Evidence for speech motor disparity from English flap production. Acoustics Week in Canada 2010, presentation.

Derrick, D. and Gick, B. (2011). Individual variation in english flaps and taps: A case of categorical phonetics. Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 56(3):307-319.
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Derrick, D. and Gick, B. (2010). Planning strategies governing selection of kinematic flap/tap variants in north american english. Ultrafest V, presentation.

Derrick, D. and Gick, B. (2008). Quantitative analysis of subphonemic flap/tap variation in nae. Acoustics Week in Canada 2008, presentation.

Derrick, D. and Gick, B. (2008). Up-flaps, down-flaps, alveolar taps and post-alveolar taps in American English. ACL-CLA 2008, poster.

Derrick, D. (2006). Blackfoot phonotactics. 22nd North West Linguistics Conference, presentation.
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Derrick, D. (2006). Blackfoot syllabification and `s'. 38th Algonquian Conference, presentation.
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Derrick, D. (2006). Blackfoot geminates and affricates. WSCLA 11, poster.
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Derrick, D. (2006). Does VOT distinguish homorganic stops in Blackfoot? 38th Algonquian Conference, poster.
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Derrick, D. and Gick, B. (2005). Production quality of /r/ and /l/ liquids among Beijing and non-Beijing Mandarin ESL learners. 149th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, poster.
* Refereed

GRANTS

(grants on which I collaborated, principal investigator listed in third column)
2007 "Collecting Blackfoot Narratives" Martina Wiltschko
Jacobs Research Fund

AWARDS

2011 Honourable Mention: Raymond H. Stetson Acoustical Society of America
Scholarship in Phonetics and Speech
Production
2008 A. G. Bell Student Prize in Speech Canadian Acoustical Association
Communication and Hearing
2006-07University Graduate FellowshipUniversity of British Columbia
2004-05University Graduate FellowshipUniversity of British Columbia
1995-96Dalhousie FellowDalhousie University
1994-95Joy Estate TrustSt. Mary's University
1994-95Achievement ScholarshipSt. Mary's University

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2009-11 RA (Bryan Gick) UBC
Aero-tactile, flap kinematics, and MEG research
2008 RA (Linguistics Department) UBC
Wrote course materials for:
LING 316: Introduction to Speech Science
LING 317: Instrumental Phonetics
2007-08RA (Joe Stemberger) UBC
Programmed Psychology Experiments
Conducted over 90 Experiments
2004-06RA (Linguistics department)UBC
Technical support, Academic Equipment Fund (AEF) grant writing
AEF equipment purchase
Interdisciplinary Speech Research Lab equipment maintenance
2003-04 RA (Human Communications Techonology) UBC
Artisynth concepts and tongue model UBC

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Instructor

2011 Instructor: LING 317: Directed studies on Instrumental Phonetics UBC
2008 Guest Instructor: AUDI 513: Lecture on Articulatory Phonetics UBC
2008 Instructor: LING 316: Introduction to Speech ScienceUBC

Teaching Assistant

2007,09,11 TA: LING 316: Introduction to Speech ScienceUBC
2006, 10 TA: LING 100: Introduction to LinguisticsUBC
2009 TA: LSA 302: Articulatory Phonetics UC Berkeley
2006-07,09TA: LING 317: Instrumental PhoneticsUBC
2008 TA: LING 317/530B: Instrumental PhoneticsUBC
1995-96TA: Sociology and Anthropology Dalhousie

SUPERVISORY EXPERIENCE

2010- RA: Textbook Illustration UBC Andrea Yeung, Wini Murphey
Kate Komova, Anna Klenin
2008-09 RA: Phonetics (fullmouth) UBC Connor Meyer, Zachary Ng
Cathy Lin
2008-09 RA: Phonetics (flaps and taps) UBC Aislin Stott
2008 TA: LING 316 UBC Aislin Stott
2008 Curriculum Building, LING 316/317 UBC Aislin Stott

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2001-02Senior Programmer/Analyst/ResearcherProtocol USA, Braintree, MA
1999-01Senior Programmer/AnalystProtocol USA, Braintree, MA
1998-99ConsultantKeane, Inc., Tampa, FL
1996-97Researcher/CoordinatorMRCIL, Halifax, NS
1995 Pilot Project Coordinator's AssistantMRCIL, Halifax, NS
1994 Peer Support AssistantMRCIL, Halifax, NS
1990-91Supply Tech723 Comm Squad, Halifax, NS

SERVICE TO THE FIELD

2009- Occasional Reviewer Current Biology
2011- Occasional Reviewer Speech Communication
October 27-29, 2006 A/V committee, 38th Algonquian conference UBC
April 22-23, 2004 A/V committee, Ultrafest II, Peter Wall Institute UBC

PROGRAMMING SKILLS

Type Languages and Environments (bold = Expert, italics = Beginner)
Internet HTML, JavaScript
Unix/Linux UNIX shell, PERL
Microsoft Visual Basic 6, VBA, Access, Excel
Sun Microsystems Java, Java Swing
Databases SQL, SQL Server
Statistics R , Matlab
Editing Elan, LATEX
Acoustics PRAAT script


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