Progress Report No.17
 
Research supported by:
Department of Health and Human Services
U.S. Public Health Service
National Institutes of Health -- Research Grant No.DC-00111-15
National Institutes of Health --Training Grant No.DC-00012-13


Table of Contents

I.Extended Manuscripts

1. Comprehension of Synthetic Speech Produced by Rule: A review and Theoretical Interpretation
------------------ Susan A. Duffy and David B. Pisoni

2. Spoken Word Recognition: Research and Theory
------------------ Scott E. Lively, David B. Pisoni, and Stephen D. Goldinger

3. Word Familiarity and Lexical Fluency: Individual Differences in Naming, Lexical Decision and Semantic Categorization
------------------ Mary Jo Lewellen, Stephen D. Goldinger, David B. Pisoni, and Beth G. Greene

4. Effects of Cognitive Workload on Speech Production: Acoustic Analyses and Perceptual Consequences
------------------ Scott E. Lively, David B. Pisoni, Walter Van Summers and Robert H. Bernacki

5. Training Japanese Listeners to Identify English /r/ and /l/: II. The Role of Phonetic Environment and Talker Variability in Learning New Perceptual Categories
------------------ Scott E. Lively, John S. Logan and David B. Pisoni


II. Short Reports & Work-in-Progress

1. Lexical Memory in Visual and Auditory Modalities: A Second Report
------------------ Ellen E. Garber and David B. Pisoni

2. Word Familiarity and Lexical Fluency: Individual Differences in Serial Recall of Spoken Words
------------------ Mary Jo Lewellen, Stephen D. Goldinger, David B. Pisoni, and Beth G. Greene

3. Concurrent Effects on Duration I: Vowels
------------------ Dawn M. Behne and Lynne C. Nygaard

4 Concurrent Effects on Duration II: Prevocalic and Postvocalic Consonants
------------------ Dawn M. Behne and Lynne C. Nygaard

5 Effects of Alcohol on Speech: Durations of Isolated Words, Sentences and Passages
------------------ Dawn M. Behne, Susan M. Rivera and David B. Pisoni

6. Lexical and Semantic Interaction in Memory for Spoken Words
------------------ Theodore Bell

7 Assessing Non-Native Speakers' Familiarity of Spoken and Written Words in English: A First Report
------------------ Catharina E. De Jonge, Ellen E. Garber and David B. Pisoni

8. Effects of Sentence Context on Signal Duration Required to Identify Natural and Synthetic Words
------------------ Susan A. Duffy and David B. Pisoni

9. Construction of Mental Models in the Comprehension of Natural and Synthetic Speech
------------------ Susan A. Duffy and Lynne C. Nygarrd

10. Implicit Learning of Auditory Sequences: A First Report
------------------ Thomas J. Palmeri, Scott E. Lively, and David B. Pisoni

11. Auditory-Filter Shapes in Normal-Hearing, Noise-Masked Normal and Elderly Listeners
------------------ Mitchell S. Sommers and Larry E. Humes