Progress Report NO.16
 
Research supported by:
Department of Health and Human Services
U.S. Public Health Service
National Institutes of Health -- Research Grant No.DC-00111-14
National Institutes of Health -- Training Grant No.DC-00012-12
National Science Foundation -- Research Grant No. IRI-86-17847
U.S. Air Force
Armstrong Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory
Contract No. AF-F-33615-86-C-0549


Table of Contents
 

I.Extended Manuscripts

1. Speech Perception and Spoken Word Recognition: Research and Theory
------------------ Stephen D. Goldinger, David B. Pisoni and Paul A. Luce

2. Automaticity in Speech Perception: Some Speech/Nonspeech comparisons
------------------ Keith A. Johnson and James V. Ralston

3. Some Effects of Training Japanese Listeners to Identify English /r/ and /l/
------------------ Scott E. Lively, David B. Pisoni and John S. Logan

4. Comprehension of Synthetic Speech Produced by Rule: Word Monitoring and Sentence-by-Sentence Listening Times
------------------ James V. Ralston, David B. Pisoni, Scott E. Lively, Beth G. Greene and John W. Mullennix

5. Measuring the workload of Comprehending Spoken Discourse: A First Report
------------------ James V. Ralston, Scott E. Lively, David B. Pisoni and Susan M. Rivera

6. Effects of Talker Variability on Speech Perception: Implications for Current Research and Theory
------------------ David B. Pisoni

7. The Role of Cognitive Factors in the Perception of Synthetic Speech
------------------ David B. Pisoni, and Beth G. Greene

8. Effects of Text Structure on the Comprehension of Natural and Synthetic Speech
------------------ Scott E. Lively, James V. Ralston, David B. Pisoni, and Susan M. Rivera

9. Novel Scientific Evidence of Intoxication: Acoustic analysis of Voice Recordings from the Exxon Valdez
------------------ J. Alexander Tanford, David B. Pisoni and Keith A. Johnson


II. Short Reports & Work-in-Progress

1. Effects of Alcohol on Speech: Acoustic Analyses of Spondees
------------------ Dawn M. Behne and Susan M. Rivera

2. Compensation for Talker Variability and Vowel Variability in the Perception of Fricatives
------------------ Keith A. Johnson

3. Effects on Talker Variability in self-Paced Serial Recall
------------------ Stephen D. Goldinger

4. Some Lexical Effects in Phoneme Categorization: A First Report
------------------ Scott E. Lively and David B. Pisoni

5. Psychological Similarities of Spoken Words
------------------ Paul A. Luce, Jan Charles-Luce and David B. Pisoni

6. Talker Normalization and Word Recognition in Preschool Children
------------------ Brigette R. Oliver

7. Episodic Encoding of Voice and Recognition Memory for Spoken Words
------------------ Thomas J. Palmeri, Stephen D. Goldinger and David B. Pisoni

8. Comments on Talker Normalization in Speech Perception
------------------ David B. Pisoni

9. Lexical Memory in Auditory and Visual Modalities: The Case for a Common Mental Lexicon
------------------ David B. Pisoni and Ellen E. Garber

10. Some New Directions in Research on Comprehension of Synthetic Speech
------------------ David B. Pisoni, James V. Ralston and Scott E. Lively