Status Report on Speech Research 1 July - 31 December 1982

This report is one of a regular series on the status and progress of studies on the nature of speech, instrumentation for its investigation, and practical applications. Manuscripts cover the following topics: Converging sources of evidence on spoken and perceived rhythms of speech: Cyclic production of vowels in sequences of monosyllabic stress feet; Some differences between phonetic and auditory modes of perception; Duplex perception: Confirmation of fusion; On the kinematics of articulatory control as a function of stress and rate; On simultaneous neuromuscular, movement, and acoustic measures of speech articulation; The relation between pronunciation and recognition of printed words in deep and shallow orthographies; Infant intermodal speech perception is a left hemisphere function; Perceptual assessment of coarticulation in sequences of two stop consonants; Subcategorical phonetic mismatches slow phonetic judgments; toward a dynamical account of motor memory and control; Is the cognitive penetrability criterion invalidated by contemporary physics?; Inadequacies of the computer metaphor; Perceptual integration of spectral and temporal cues for stop consonant place of articulation: New puzzles; Acoustic laryngeal reaction time: Foreperiod and stuttering severity effects; Disinhibition of masking in auditory sensory memory Letter ot the Editor, Journal of Phonetics; Is it just reading? Comments on the papers by Mann, Morrison, and Wolford and Fowler; Discovering the sound pattern of a language. Sponsored in part by Grants PHS-HD-16591 and PHS-N01-HD-1-2420. Report on the Status and Progress of Studies on the Nature of Speech, Instrumentation for Its Investigation, and Practical Applications.