Considers listener expectancies based on timing redundancy in continuous speech and the interaction between the effects of segmental and suprasegmental cues during ongoing perception. (Editor/RK)

Critiqued are five reviews of research puporting to examine the effectiveness of perceptual training in the improvement of reading. (DB)

Auditory dysfunction accompanying noise-induced hearing loss was examined with 16 male Ss (18 29-years-old) who had 12 24-month histories of noise exposure and high-frequency hearing loss. (IM)

Handbooks of French phonetics disagree with the findings of phonetic research. Discussed are: differentiating between teaching pronunciation and auditory perception: the difference between acoustic and semantic hearing; and the importance of nasal regressive and progressive assimilation in contemporary spoken French. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

This article offers three listings of signs and symptoms useful in detection of learning and perceptual deficiencies. The first list presents symptoms of the learning-disabled child; the second gives specific visual perceptual deficits (poor discrimination, figure-ground problems, reversals, etc.); and the third gives auditory perceptual deficits…

After a brief discussion of the difficulties Spanish-speaking children encounter when learning to speak and read English, the authors offer suggestions for curriculum changes and methods of teaching oral English that would facilitate learning for these children. (TO)

The Suvag Lingua is a machine used to facilitate better aural perception by working from and on the basis of a student's error in producing a particualr sound and adapting the model which is to be imitated. (DD)

The classroom model Suvag Lingua is intended for collective phonetic correction rather than individual. (DD)

Compares similarities in correcting defective pronunciation in the mother tongue and in a second language. (DD)

To get our musical environment back under control, we're going to have to go outside of music and devise cultural strategies that will make music visible and audible again. (Author)

To examine the relationship of the Flowers-Costello Tests of Central Auditory Abilities and the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities, 20 ethnic minority kindergarten children were administered both tests. (Author)