The perception of speech occurs when a sensory contour, whether auditory or visual or
tactile, is organized to stand out against the sensory background by attention, and then is …

Studies of perceptual organization of speech aim to produce a direct characterization of the
fundamental aspect of speech perception by which the listener resolves the acoustically …

Abstract describes several differences among contemporary approaches [to the study of
speech perception], exposing the uniquely perceptual issues about spoken communication …

Inspection of a speech waveform does not reveal clear correlates of what the listener
perceives as word boundaries. Yet the absence of word boundary markers hardly poses a …

Publisher Summary None of the acoustic constituents of speech is unique to speech,
although some features of speech are characteristic: a cyclical rise and fall of energy …

The thesis of this essay is that a psychoacoustic setting is self-evidently natural but sufficient
to create an account of phonetic perception. Main topics discussed in this chapter are:(1) …

The speech signal is the end point for speaking and the starting point for listening. While
descriptions of language and language processes use terms like word, phrase, syllable …

Abstract [review] some of the fundamental problems encountered in the study of speech
perception/address some key issues in the field and suggest some promising alternative …

Systematic acoustic variation reflects vocal tract dynamics; it provides the acoustic
coherence that makes a signal sound like speech. It is thus basic to speech perception …

The paper reviews selected studies in speech perception, most of them published in the past
five years. Topics include the contributions of prosody to segmental perception, the …