In 2026, Bryan Gick, myself, and Ian Wilson published our 2nd edition of Articulatory Phonetics. This book introduces speech science and articulatory phonetics to upper-level undergraduates and new graduate students in Linguistics and Speech Science. By presenting a unified path through these topics, Articulatory Phonetics promises to make the task of teaching these classes much easier and more effective.
The book also makes teaching lots of fun, with balloon lung, clay tongue, and paper larynx assignments, grey boxes with oddly relevant materials, and a wealth of online assignment and image resources. Meant as a companion book to Keith Johnson’s Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics, 3rd edition. If your University has a Linguistics or health science department, is likely already in your Library. In addition, if you are an instructor in phonetics or speech science, Wiley-Blackwell should provide you with a review copy.
The 2nd edition has vastly updated content – we are particularly proud of our improvement to chapter 2 on the central nervous system. When we wrote the 1st edition, none of us authors had experience in neuroscience. That changed dramatically since! We also added a chapter 12 on perception, discussing how we hear, see, and feel speech in great detail. Every other chapter has been updated with current research materials and methods — a lot of which the three of us were responsible for producing.
We will post reviews here as they come in:
Articualtory Phonetics, 1st edition
This is the cover of the first edition, along with reviews of same.
Al-Tamimi, Jalal. (2013). Articulatory Phonetics Edited by Bryan Gick, Ian Wilson Donald Derrick (Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2013), International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders 48(5):597-598
Greer, Sarah D. F. (2016). Articulatory Phonetics by Bryan Gick, Ian Wilson, and Donald Derrick (review), The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique, 61(1):110-113
Fuchs, Susanne. (2015). BRYAN GICK , IAN WILSON & DONALD DERRICK , Articulatory phonetics. Maldon, MA & Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. Pp. xxii + 250. ISBN: 978-1-4051-9320-7, Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 45(3):311–313