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Dr Donald James Derrick

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Department: New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain & Behaviour

Email: donald.derrick@canterbury.ac.nz

Direct Dial: +64 3 3695941

Office: Elsie Locke Building 221

Language: English

I study influences speech production and perception from theoretical, applied, and commercial perspectives.
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Fields of Research

  • Phonetics
  • Laboratory Phonology
  • Speech Production
  • Speech Perception
  • Articulatory Phonetics
  • Research commercialization
  • Cognitive Science
  • Psychophysics

Researcher Summary

I study speech production and perception in order to identify what environmental, sensory  and physical constraints on speech can enhance or interfere with speech perception.

I research how speech speech airflow contacting the skin enhances and interferes with speech perception, much as researchers have done with visual speech since the 1950s. This includes studying speech air flow production, skin respose to speech air flow touch, speech perception enhancement and interference, and brain responses from seeing, feeling, and feeling speech.

I also work on seemingly tiny constraints of speech production in order to understand when and how to account for low-level speech production variability.  In so doing, I designed co-collection and co-registration of ultrasound imaging of the tongue and articulometry giving us both shape and point-tracking for the tongue. And in so doing, gained an improved understanding of the tongue's behaviour in speech in relation to gravity, speech rate, and tongue motion complexity.

My goal is to produce a multi-sensory model of speech perception that takes into account the relationship between audio, visual, and tactile speech signal strength, along with low-level speech production constraints.

Subject Area: Disciplines

  • Engineering and Technology: Acoustics
  • Health and Health Sciences: Speech & Language Therapy; Dentistry
  • Languages & Linguistics: Linguistics
  • Psychology: Behavioural Science
  • Science & Technology: Science & Technology

Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

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Journal Articles
  • Derrick D., Kabaliuk N., Longworth L., Pishyar-Dehkordi P. and Jermy M. (2022) Speech air flow with and without face masks. Scientific Reports 12(1) http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-04745-z.
  • Derrick D. and Gick B. (2021) Gait change in tongue movement. Scientific Reports 11(1) http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-96139-4.
  • Ying J., Shaw JA., Carignan C., Proctor M., Derrick D. and Best CT. (2021) Evidence for active control of tongue lateralization in Australian English /l/. Journal of Phonetics 86 101039: 1-24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2021.101039.
  • Blue WJ., Derrick D. and Blue CL. (2020) The impacts of a community-based health education and nutritional support program on birth outcomes among migrant workers in maesot, thailand: A retrospective review. International Social Science Review 96(3): 1-23.
  • Shaw JA., Carignan C., Agostini TG., Mailhammer R., Harvey M. and Derrick D. (2020) Phonological contrast and phonetic variation: The case of velars in iwaidja. Language 96(3): 578-617. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lan.2020.0042.
  • Strycharczuk P., Derrick D. and Shaw J. (2020) Locating de-lateralization in the pathway of sound changes affecting coda /l/. Laboratory Phonology 11(1) http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/LABPHON.236.
  • Derrick D., Duerr J. and Kerr RG. (2019) Mask-less oral and nasal audio recording and air flow estimation for speech analysis. Electronics Letters 55(1): 12-14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/el.2018.5567.
  • Derrick D., Hansmann D. and Theys C. (2019) Tri-modal Speech: Audio-visual-tactile Integration in Speech Perception. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.5134064.
  • Derrick D., Heyne M. and Al-Tamimi J. (2019) Native language influence on brass instrument performance: An application of generalized additive mixed models (GAMMs) to midsagittal ultrasound images of the tongue. Frontiers in Psychology: 10 2597: 1-26. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02597.
  • Derrick D., Madappallimattam J. and Theys C. (2019) Aero-tactile integration during speech perception: Effect of response and stimulus characteristics on syllable identification. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 146(3): 1605-1614. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.5125131.
  • Keough M., Derrick D. and Gick B. (2019) Cross-Modal Effects in Speech Perception. Annual Review of Linguistics 5: 49-66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011718-012353.
  • Derrick D., Bicevskis K. and Gick B. (2018) Visual-Tactile Speech Perception and the Autism Quotient. Frontiers in Communication 3 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2018.00061.
  • Derrick D., Carignan C., Chen W-R., Shujau M. and Best CT. (2018) Three-dimensional printable ultrasound transducer stabilization system. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 144(5): EL392-EL398. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.5066350.
  • Heyne M., Wang X., Derrick D., Dorreen K. and Watson KD. (2018) The articulation of /ɹ/ in New Zealand English. Journal of the International Phonetic Association Online First http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025100318000324.
  • Keough M., Taylor RC., Derrick D., Schellenberg M. and Gick B. (2017) Sensory integration from an impossible source: Perceiving simulated faces. Canadian Acoustics - Acoustique Canadienne 45(3): 176-177.
  • Bicevskis K., Derrick D. and Gick B. (2016) Visual-tactile integration in speech perception: Evidence for modality neutral speech primitives. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 140(5): 3531-3539. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4965968.
  • Heyne M. and Derrick D. (2016) Visualization techniques for empirical brass instrument research. International Trumpet Guild Journal 140(4): 6-14 (+24).
  • Shaw JA., Chen WR., Proctor MI. and Derrick D. (2016) Influences of tone on vowel articulation in Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 59(6): S1566-S1574. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/2015_JSLHR-S-15-0031.
  • Teo TKY., Ashley PF. and Derrick D. (2016) Lower first permanent molars: developing better predictors of spontaneous space closure. The European Journal of Orthodontics 38(1): 90-95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ejo/cjv029.
Conference Contributions - Published
  • Derrick D., Heyne M., O'Beirne G. and Hay J. (2019) Aero-tactile integration in Mandarin. In Calhoun S; Escudero P; Tabain M; Warren P (Eds). Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019 Australian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc..
  • Keough M., Derrick D., Taylor RC. and Gick B. (2019) Learning effects in multimodal perception with real and simulated faces. In Calhoun S; Escudero P; Tabain M; Warren P (Eds). Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019: 1189-1192. Australian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc..
  • Hansmann D., Theys C. and Derrick D. (2018) Hearing, seeing, and feeling speech: A pilot EEG study. In Hillman K (Eds). Proceedings AWCBR 2018: 48-48.
  • Ying J., Carignan C., Shaw JA., Proctor M., Derrick D. and Best CT. (2017) Temporal dynamics of lateral channel formation in /l/: 3D EMA data from Australian English. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2017-August: 2978-2982. http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2017-765.
Conference Contributions - Other
  • Derrick D., Asadi S. and Bouvier N. (2022) Transmission of Airborne Pathogens through Expiratory Activities, panel: AAAS2022. Online: Donald James Derrick, 17-20 Feb 2022.
  • Hansmann D., Derrick D., Shoorangiz R. and Theys C. (2019) Hearing, seeing and feeling speech: The neurophysiological correlates of multimodal speech perception. United Stated: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Annual Convention, 1-1 Jan 2019.
  • Theys C., Derrick D. and Hansmann D. (2019) Multimodal speech perception: the relative contribution of visual and tactile information on auditory speech perception. Orlando, United States: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Annual Convention., 21 Nov 2019.
  • Derrick D., Hansmann D., Haws Z. and Theys C. (2018) Audio-Visual-Tactile integration in speech perception. Lisbon, Portugal: LabPhon16, 19 Jun 2018.
  • Heyne M., Dorreen K., Wang X., Derrick D. and Watson KD. (2016) An ultrasound study of /r/ in New Zealand English. Wellington, New Zealand: Linguistic Society of New Zealand Annual Conference (Language in Society), 21-22 Nov 2016.
  • Heyne M., Wang X., Dorreen K., Derrick D. and Watson KD. (2016) The articulation of /r/ in New Zealand English. Honolulu, HI, USA: Acoustical Society of America and Acoustical Society of Japan, 28 Nov-2 Dec 2016.
Oral Presentations
  • Derrick D. (2022) Human airflow while breathing, speaking, and singing with and without masks. Online: Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting (AAAS2022), 19 Feb 2022.

Review and Refereeing

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  • Current Biology ( 2010 )
  • Journal of Phonetics ( 2009 - 2022)
  • Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research ( 2009 - 2022)
  • Journal of the Acoustical Society of America ( 2009 - 2022)
  • Laboratory Phonology ( 2009 - 2022)
  • Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences ( 2009 - 2022)
  • Speech Communication ( 2011 - 2022)

Research Projects

  • How do our brains hear, see and feel speech?

Future Research

  • Modelling multi-sensory speech production and perception
  • Automating co-collection and co-registration of Ultrasound and EMA
  • Modelling effects of speech rate on tongue motion "gait".
  • Brain activity in multi-sensory speech perception
  • Modelling free-variation in Arabic

Key Methodologies

  • Ultrasound
  • Acoustic Analysis
  • Speech Perception Experiments (Psychophysics)
  • Articulometry
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