Speech Research. A Report on the Status and Progress of Studies on the Nature of Speech, Instrumentation for Its Investigation, and Practical Applications

Manuscripts cover the following topics: The structuring of language: Clues from the differences between signed and spoken language, Are movements prepared in parts. Not under compatible (natural) conditions, Velopharyngeal function: A spatial-temporal model, Speech perception without traditional speech cues, Influence of preceding liquid on stop consonent perception, Perceptual assessment of fricative-stop coarticulation, Influence of vocalic context on perception on the (S)-(s) distinction: IV. Two strategies in fricative discrimination, Context sensitivity and phonetic mediation in categorical perception: A comparison of four stimulus continua, Bidirectional contrast effects in the perception of VC-CV sequences, Perception and production of two-stop-consonant sequences, Words written in Kana are named faster than the same words written in Kanji, Some experiments on the Roman and Cyrillic alphabets of Serbo-Croatian, Lexical decision in a phonologically shallow orthography, Representation of inflected nouns in the internal lexicon, A word superiority effect in a phonetically precise orthography, Laryngeal activity in Icelandic obstruent production, Laryngeal adjustments in Japanese voiceless sound production, Articulatory control in a deaf speaker, Acoustic factors that may contribute to categorical perception. Sponsored in part by Grants NSF-MCS79-16177 and PHS-HD-01994.