Donald Derrick

Donald Derrick (1973-) is a Canadian citizen, residing in Christchurch, New Zealand. He is a Sr. Lecturer at the University of Canterbury (NZILBB), and an adjunct at Western Sydney University (MARCS Institute). He was awarded a PhD in Linguistics from the University of British Columbia and his research focuses on articulatory phonetics. In particular, he uses ultrasound and articulometry to view and record tongue, lip and jaw movement during speech. Donald Derrick is a coauthor (with Bryan Gick and Ian Wilson) of Articulatory Phonetics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).

He is also a co-inventor of three research systems: 1) A system for using air-flow to enhance speech perception, 2) A system for recording speech air flow estimations and nasalance without the need for a mask, 3) A 3D printable ultrasound transducer stabilizer that allows co-collection of point tracking and medical imaging data from the vocal tract.

You can find his website at http://www.mapsofspeech.com