Progress Report No.19
 
research supported by:
Department of Health and Human Services
U.S. Public Health Service
National Institutes of Health -- Research Grant No. DC-00111-17
National Institutes of Health -- Research Grant No. DC-00012-15


Table of Contents

I. Extended Manuscripts

1.Sources of Variability Affecting Speech Perception and Spoken Word Recognition
------------------ David B. Pisoni

2. On the Contribution of Instance-Specific Characteristics to Speech Perception
------------------ Ann R. Bradlow, Lynne C. Nygaard And David B. Pisoni

3. New Directions for Assessing Speech Perception in Persons with Sensory Aids
------------------Karen I. Kirk, David B. Pisoni, Mitchell S. Sommers, Marilyn Young and Chris Evanson

4. Who ...me?
------------------ Denise R. Mandel, Peter W. Jusczyk and David B. Pisoni

5. Sources of Variability in Speech Perception by Hearing-Impaired Listeners
------------------ David B. Pisoni, Chris Miyamoto, Karen I. Kirk, Mitchell Sommers and Mary Joe Osberger

6. Auditory Word Recognition by Pediatric Cochlear Implant Users: Lexical and Indexical Influences
------------------ Karen I. Kirk, Mitchell S. Sommers, David B. Pisoni and Mary Joe Osberger

7. The Effects of Speaking Rate and Stimulus Variability on Spoken Word Recognition by Young and Elderly Listeners
------------------ Mitchell S. Sommers, Larry Humes and David B. Pisoni

8. Lexical Effects of Spoken Word Recognition by Pediatric Cochlear Implant Users
------------------ Karen I. Kirk, David B. Pisoni and Mary Joe Osberger

9. Modeling the Effect of Learning Voices on the Perception of Speech
------------------ Michael L. Kalish and Lynne C. Nygaard

10. Effects of Stimulus Variability on Recall of Spoken Sentences: A First Report
------------------ John Karl and David B. Pisoni

11. Speech Perception Performance of Nucleus Multichannel Cochlear Implant Users with Partial Electrode Insertions
------------------ Mark Sehgal, Karen I. Kirk and Richard T. Miyamoto



II. Short Reports & Work-in-Progress

1. Talker Normalization in Normally Articulating and Phonologically Delayed Children: methodological Considerations
------------------ Karen Forrest, Steven B. Chin, David B. Pisoni and Nancy Nelson Barlow

2. An Emerging Phonetic-Phonological System Two Years Post-Cochlear Impant: A Preliminary Linguistic Description
------------------ Steven B. Chin, David B. Pisoni and William R. Svec

3. Some New Directions in Evaluating the Speech Perception Abilities of Cochlear Implant Patients: A Preliminary Report
------------------ Mitchell S. Sommers, Karen I. Kirk, David B. Pisoni and Mary Joe Osberger

4. Speaker Variability and Attention in an Auditory Serial Reaction Time Task
------------------ Carl W. Turner, Scott E. Lively and David B. Pisoni

5. Some Comments on Implicit Effects of Voices on Spoken Word Recognition
------------------ Carl W. Turner and David B. Pisoni



III. Instrumentation and Software

1. A Progress Report on a New PC-based Real-time Experiment Control System
------------------ Luis R. Hernandz