Article examined the relative contributions of pause frequency and articulation rate to the listener's extraphonic perception of rate, the invariance of the cue hierarchy across modalities, and the reproducibility of the extraphonic scale with somewhat different procedures and stimulus ensembles. (Author)

The present paper reports some experiments designed to determine the role of selectivity in identifying speech sounds, rather than in selecting which of two streams of partially analysed speech sounds will receive further processing. (Author)

Results of this study suggest that, for primary level children, the natural'' perceptual unit of spoken language is the syllable, not the phoneme. (Authors)

Research for this report supported by grants from the National Research Council and the Medical Research Council of Canada. (RS)

Special issue devoted to neurolinguistics and neuropsychology. (VM)

Procedures and sample activities are provided for both identifying and training children with auditory perception problems related to sound localization, sound discrimination, and sound sequencing. (KW)

This paper was originally published in the Reports from the Institute of Occupational Health series. (JM)

Based on part of a dissertation submitted to the University of Michigan in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Ph.D. degree. Revised version of a paper given at the 80th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Houston, Texas, November 1970. (VM)