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Bryan Gick
Bryan Gick (/bɹaɪᵊn d͡ʒɪk/) is a Canadian linguist. He currently works as Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver Campus. He is also the director of the Integrated Speech Research Lab, UBC.

Education
Gick grew up in rural northwestern Pennsylvania, on the edge of the Allegheny National Forest. He completed his Bachelor of Arts degree in linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania (1988-1992), during which he completed a year of studies abroad working with Heinz Giegerich at the University of Edinburgh (1990-1991). Gick then attended Yale University where he completed his Master of Arts (1994-1995), Master of Philosophy, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees (1995-1999) in linguistics. He began working at Haskins Laboratories in 1996, with Douglas Whalen. His doctoral dissertation was entitled The Articulatory Basis of Syllable Structure: A Study of English Glides and Liquids and he was supervised by Dr. Louis Goldstein.