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Book SynopsisThe Handbook of Speech Perception is a collection of forward-looking articles that offer a summary of the technical and theoretical accomplishments in this vital area of research on language.
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Table of ContentsList of Contributors.
Preface: Michael Studdert-Kennedy (Haskins Laboratories).
Introduction: David B. Pisoni (Indiana University) and Robert E. Remez (Barnard College).
Part I: Sensing Speech.
1. Acoustic Analysis and Synthesis of Speech: James R. Sawusch (University at Buffalo).
2. Perceptual Organization of Speech: Robert E. Remez (Barnard College).
3. Primacy of Multimodal Speech Perception: Lawrence D. Rosenblum (University of California, Riverside).
4. Phonetic Processing by the Speech Perceiving Brain: Lynne E. Bernstein (House Ear Institute).
5. Event-related Evoked Potentials (ERPs) in Speech Perception: Dennis Molfese, Alexandra P. Fonaryova Key, Mandy J. Maguire, Guy O. Dove and Victoria J. Molfese (all University of Louisville).
Part II: Perception of Linguistic Properties.
6. Features in Speech Perception and Lexical Access: Kenneth N. Stevens (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
7. Speech Perception and Phonological Contrast: Edward Flemming (Stanford University).
8. Acoustic Cues to the Perception of Segmental Phonemes: Lawrence J. Raphael (Adelphi University).
9. Clear Speech: Rosalie M. Uchanski (CID at Washington University School of Medicine).
10. Perception of Intonation: Jacqueline Vaissiere (Laboratoire de Phonetique et de Phonologique, Paris).
11. Lexical Stress: Anne C. Cutler (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands).
12. Slips of the Ear: Z. S. Bond (Ohio University).
Part III: Perception of Indexical Properties.
13. Perception of Dialect Variation: Cynthia Clopper and David B. Pisoni (both Indiana University).
14. Perception of Voice Quality: Jody Kreiman (UCLA), Diana Vanlancker-Sidtis (New York University) and Bruce R. Gerratt (UCLA).
15. Speaker Normalization in Speech Perception: Keith A. Johnson (Ohio State University).
16. Perceptual Integration of Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Properties of Speech: Lynne C. Nygaard (Emory University).
Part IV: Speech Perception by Special Listeners.
17. Speech Perception in Infants: Derek M. Houston (Indiana University School of Medicine).
18. Speech Perception in Childhood: Amanda C. Walley (University of Alabama, Birmingham).
19. Age-related Changes in Spoken Word Recognition: Mitchell S. Sommers (Washington University).
20. Speech Perception in Deaf Children with Cochlear Implants: David B. Pisoni (Indiana University).
21. Speech Perception following Focal Brain Injury: William Badacker (Johns Hopkins University).
22. Cross-Language Speech Perception: Nuria Sebastian-Galles (Parc Cientific de Barcelona – Hospital de San Joan de Déu).
23. Speech Perception in Specific Language Impairment: Susan Ellis Weismer (University of Wisconsin, Madison).
Part V: Recognition of Spoken Words.
24. Spoken Word Recognition: The Challenge of Variation: Paul A. Luce and Conor T. McLennan (State University of New York, Buffalo).
25. Probabilistic Phonotactics in Spoken Word Recognition: Edward T. Auer, Jr. (House Ear Institute) and Paul A. Luce (State University of New York, Buffalo).
Part VI: Theoretical Perspectives.
26. The Relation of Speech Perception and Speech Production: Carol A. Fowler and Bruno Galantucci (both Haskins Laboratories).
27. A Neuroethological Perspective on the Perception of Vocal Communication Signals: Timothy Gentner (University of Chicago) and Gregory F. Ball (Johns Hopkins University).
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