Argues that confusion in understanding the process of listening can be alleviated by adopting an information processing approach to listening. Presents a model and discusses listening strategies. (PD)

Reports on research carried out in the Netherlands using visual feedback showing that training in perception of intonation resulted in statistically significant improvement in production of English intonation patterns. (Author/BK)

Newborns were presented with a tape-recorded rattle sound through a single loudspeaker, through two loudspeakers with one onset leading the other by seven msecs., and through two loudspeakers simultaneously. Newborns turned toward the single source sound, but not toward either of the dual source sounds. (Author/RH)

As a group, the language impaired children demonstrated deficits in comprehension when compared to the normal language children. However, both groups scored near the ceiling on several tests, and on most tests that did differentiate the two groups, the mean scores of both groups were above the norms. (Author)

In two related experiments on recognition--on touch and audition--accuracy rates were obtained from 14 congenitally blind adults and compared with those for normally sighted Ss. (Author/SBH)