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


Each article in PR21 is in PDF format. You can view the PDF files with Acrobat Reader and download the whole article.
Table of Contents

I.Extended Manuscripts

1. Speech Perception
------------------ Richard Wright, Stefan Frisch and David B. Pisoni

2. Looking at the "Stars": A First Report on the Intercorrelations Among Measures of Speech Perception, Intelligibility and Language Development in Pediatric Cochlear Implant Users
----------------- David B. Pisoni, Mario Svirsky, Karen I. Kirk, and Richard T. Miyamoto

3. Measures of Phonological Memory Span for Sounds Differing in Discriminability: Some Preliminary Findings
------------------ Miranda Cleary

4. Static vs. Dynamic Faces as Retrieval Cues in Recognition of Spoken Words
------------------- Lorin Lachs

5. Some Observations on Working Memory Tasks and Issues in Cognitive Psychology
------------------- Winston D. Goh

6. Familiarity, Similarity and Memory for Speech Events
------------------- Sonya M. Sheffert and Richard M. Shiffrin

7. Improvements in Speech Perception in Prelingually-Deafened Children:Effects of Device, Communication Mode, and Chronological Age
------------------- Ted A. Meyer, Mario A. Svirsky, Karen I. Kirk, and Richard T. Miyamoto

8. Predicting Open-Set Spoken Word Recognition Performance from Feature Identification Scores in Pediatric Cochlear Implant Users: A Preliminary Analysis
------------------- Stefan Frisch and David B. Pisoni

9. Lexical Competition in Spoken English Words
------------------ Shigeaki Amano

10. Some Computational Analyses of the PBK Test: Effects of Frequency and Lexical Density on Spoken Word Recognition
------------------ Ted A. Meyer and David B. Pisoni


II. Short Reports & Work-in-Progress

1. Cognitive Factors and Cochlear Implants: An Overview of the Role of Perception Attention, Learning and Memory in Speech Perception
------------------ David B. Pisoni

2. Performance of Normal-Hearing Children on Open-Set Speech Perception Tests
------------------ Melissa Kluck, David B. Pisoni, and Karen Iler Kirk

3. Effects of Talker, Rate and Amplitude Variation on Recognition Memory for Spoken Words
------------------ Ann R. Bradlow, Lynne C. Nygaard, and David B. Pisoni

4. Acoustic, Psychometric and Lexical Neighborhood Properties of the Spondaic Words: A Computational Analysis of Speech Discrimination Scores
------------------ Ted A. Meyer, David B. Pisoni, Paul A. Luce, and Robert C. Bilger

5. Effects of Alcohol on the Production of Words in Context: A First Report
------------------ Steven B. Chin, Nathan R. Large, and David B. Pisoni

6. Intelligibility of Normal Speech II: Analysis of Transcription Errors
------------------ Amy T. Neel, Ann R. Bradlow, and David B. Pisoni

7. Some Observations on Neighborhood Statistics of Spoken English Words
------------------ Shigeaki Amano

8. Sensory Aid and Word Position Effects on Consonant Feature Production by Children with Profound Hearing Impairment
------------------ Steven B. Chin, Karen Iler Kirk, and Mario A. Svirsky

9. Lexical Competition and Reduction in Speech: A Preliminary Report
------------------ Richard Wright

10. Training Japanese Listeners to Identify English /r/ and /l/: Long-Term Retention of Learning in Perception and Production
------------------Ann R. Bradlow, Reiko Akahane-Yamada, David B. Pisoni, and Yohíichi Tohkura

11. A Preliminary Acoustic Study of Errors in Speech Production
------------------ Stefan Frisch and Richard Wright

12. Experimental Evidence for Abstract Phonotactic Constraints
------------------ Stefan Frisch and Bushra Zawaydeh

13. Experience with Sinewave Speech and the Recognition of Sinewave Voices
------------------ Sonya M. Sheffert, David B. Pisoni, Nathan R. Large, Jennifer M. Fellowes, and Robert E. Remez

14. Tongue Twisters Reveal Neighborhood Density Effects in Speech Production
------------------ Michael S. Vitevitch

15. Some Factors Affecting Recognition of Spoken Words by Normal Hearing Adults
------------------ Ann R. Bradlow, Gina M. Torretta, and David B. Pisoni

16. Audio-Visual Speech Perception Without Traditional Speech Cues: A Second Report
------------------ Robert E. Remez, Jennifer M. Fellowes, David B. Pisoni, Winston D. Goh, and Philip E. Rubin


III. Instrumentation & Software

1. The Hoosier Audiovisual Multi-Talker Database
------------------ Sonya Sheffert, Lorin Lachs, and Luis Hernandez