Acoustics Week in Canada: Montreal (October 2023)

For this year’s Acoustic Week in Canada, our lab published several conference papers, and several of our lab members went to present them at Acoustics Week in Canada, held in Montreal Oct 3-6, 2023.

Congratulations to Yadong Liu and Grace Bengtson as well, for winning best poster presentation!

Conference Papers:

Azreen, J., Mayer, C., Liu, Y., Shamei, A., Stavness, I., & Gick, B. (2023). Biomechanical Simulation of Lateral Asymmetry in Tongue Bracing. Canadian Acoustics51(3), 196–197. Retrieved from https://jcaa.caa-aca.ca/index.php/jcaa/article/view/4095

Bengtson, G., Massing, E., Zhao, C., Samarskaya, M., Islam, J., & Gick, B. (2023). Tongue Adjustments in the Chest-Head Register Transition of Operatic Singers. Canadian Acoustics51(3), 216–217. Retrieved from https://jcaa.caa-aca.ca/index.php/jcaa/article/view/4087

Liu, Y., Hung, K., Villasenor, M., Colcleugh, S., Chung, E., & Gick, B. (2023). Timing of Perioral Muscle Suppression in Smiled Speech. Canadian Acoustics51(3), 206–207. Retrieved from https://jcaa.caa-aca.ca/index.php/jcaa/article/view/4096

Ma, C., Islam, J., Kao, E., Kitamura, R., Wang, S., Maitinsky, M., & Gick, B. (2023). Acoustic Variation in Speech: Contrasting Initial and Later Stages of Conversations Showing Opinion Convergence and Divergence. Canadian Acoustics51(3), 212–213. Retrieved from https://jcaa.caa-aca.ca/index.php/jcaa/article/view/4076

Yadong’s talk at UC Irvine (February 2023)

One of our lab members, Yadong Liu gave a talk this Friday, February 10th, 2023! He talked about his and Bryan’s project on lateral tongue bracing via Zoom to graduate students at the University of California.

Liu, Y. and Gick, B. Lateral tongue bracing: a universal tongue posture. Department of Language Sciences, University of California, Irvine. 10 Feb 2023.

Acoustics Week in Canada: Newfoundland (Sept 2022)

Congratulations to all of our lab members and collaborators who presented this week at the Acoustics Week in Canada Newfoundland (2022)!

Two lab projects were presented:

Nicole Ebbutt, Yadong Liu, Annabelle Purnomo, Charissa Purnomo, Kyra Hung & Bryan Gick (2022) INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE OF LINGUAL BRACING POSTURE. Canadian Acoustics 50(3): 96-97. 

Annabelle Purnomo, Nicole Ebbutt, Charissa Purnomo, Jahurul Islam, Gillian de Boer and Bryan Gick (2022). COMPARING VELUM VELOCITY IN QUÉBÉCOIS FRENCH NASALS. Canadian Acoustics 50(3): 98-99.

8th International Conference on Speech Motor Control, Groningen, the Netherlands (August 2022)

Members of our lab presented posters at the 8th International Conference on Speech Motor Control, Groningen, the Netherlands. August 24-27, 2022:

Derrick, D. and Gick, B. Gait change in tongue movement in American and New Zealand English. Poster presented at the 8th International Conference on Speech Motor Control, Groningen, the Netherlands. August 24-27, 2022

Shamei, A., Liu, Y., Gick, B. Cross-language generalizability of acoustic features for Alzheimer’s disease detection models. Poster presented at the 8th International Conference on Speech Motor Control, Groningen, the Netherlands. August 24-27, 2022

182nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America

Congratulations to all of our lab members and collaborators who presented this week at the Acoustical Society of America conference in Denver, Colorado! We had representation from 5 lab projects and are excited to bring the constructive feedback back to our lab to improve our studies.

Word and phrase duration in Mandarin-speaking individuals with Alzheimer’s disease by Kaiwen Yu, Yadong Liu, Arian Shamei & Bryan Gick.

Triggering and spreading of lateral tongue posture by Nicole Ebbutt, Kyra Hung, Magdalena Ivok, Farhan Samir, Weirui Chen & Bryan Gick.

Effect of speech-related smile suppression on emotional valence by Nicole Ebbutt, Yadong Liu, Charissa Purnomo, Annabelle Purnomo, Kyra Hung, Maryn Lum-Tong, Gillian de Boer & Bryan Gick.

Speed of velum movement during nasal segments and rest intervals: A cineradiographic study of French and English speech by Jahurul Islam, Gillian de Boer & Bryan Gick.

Facial posture as a phonetic prime for memory retrieval by Arian Shamei, Sijia Zhang, Noah Luntzlara, Yangshuying Zhao, Sonja Frasier, Gillian de Boer & Bryan Gick.

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