Investigates whether 7- and 10-year-old children and adults are sensitive to their own and another listener's failure to understand literal and nonliteral (sarcastic) uses of utterances. (HOD)

Discusses changes in speech production and perception occurring in Korean speakers learning English during short-term training in the perception and production of the /r/ - /l/ contrast in English. (EKN)

Describes the verbo-tonal method in phonetics, which recognizes the importance of correct aural perception, as well as correct articulation. The learner must acquire new habits in both. Teaching suggestions are offered, with examples of errors, proceeding from the simpler to the more difficult. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Examined was the extent of increase in learning efficiency of 72 mentally retarded children, mean age 14 years, when the stronger of two perceptual modalities (auditory or visual) was matched to a unisensory auditory or visual perceptual curriculum. (Author/MC)

Paper presented at the 2nd Oticongress, Copenhagen, Denmark, February 27 - March 3, 1972. (VM)

Author reports an attempt to find a more comprehensive basis for tests of musical talent by considering musical performance to be highly dependent on auditory perceptual ability. (Author/MB)

A listening program using pre-recorded tapes and workbooks to teach second, fifth, eighth, and eleventh grade students how to improve their listening to oral communication. (Authors/MB)

Suggests that preinstructional evaluation in the areas of mental age, auditory memory, letter names, and the use of context-auditory clues would aid in making predictive, diagnostic judgments as to later reading achievement. (VJ)