Structure and Process in Speech Perception: Proceedings of the Symposium on Dynamic Aspects of Speech Perception held at I.P.O., Eindhoven, Netherlands, August 4–6, 1975

The purpose of the Symposium was to provide a meeting place for those working in the field of s·peech perception, whose main in­ terest is in the study of the perceptual processes in the deco­ ding of connected speech, hence the title Dynamic Aspects of Speech Perception. It was felt, after the meeting of the 8th ICA in London and the 2nd Speech Communication Seminar in Stockholm, 1974, that there should be an opportunity for an exchange of ideas on this topic with the emphasis on discussion and interpretation, rather than on the presentation of experimental results. The initiators set themselves up as a planning committee and asked the present editors to organize a symposium in Eindhoven at the Institute for Perception Research, which has a well established tradition in perceptual work. The present proceedings contain papers by contributors invited by the planning committee, as well as discussions. Most of the papers were circulated well in advance of the Symposium. We arranged the material in five sections: I. Theoretical Issues in Speech Perception Research II. Prosody in Speech Perception III. Some Storage Properties of Speech Perception IV. Short-term context effects, Dichotic listening, Speech Perception in the very young V. General discussion and tentative conclusions The order of papers is not the same as at the Symposium. Two papers are printed that were not introduced orally by their authors, viz.

Table of Contents:
I Theoretical Issues in Speech Perception Research.- Understanding speech understanding Keynote address.- Some stages of processing in speech perception.- What is it that we perceive when we perceive speech?.- II prosody in Speech Perception.- How a full account of segmental perception depends on prosody and vice versa.- Perception of segment duration in sentence contexts.- Perception of segmental duration.- The role of intonation in speech perception.- Anticipation in speech production and its implications for perception.- The intonation-syntax interaction: Prosodic features in perceptual processing of sentences.- Rhythmic expectancy in continuous speech perception.- On the dynamic use of prosody in speech perception.- The phonetic structure of paragraphs.- III Some Storage Properties of Speech Perception.- Temporally segmented speech and “echoic” storage.- Preperceptual auditory storage in speech recognition.- Recognition memory for voices.- IV Short-Term Context Effects, Dichotic Listening, Speech Perception in the Very Young.- Perception of time-varying resonance frequencies in speech and non-speech stimuli.- Coarticulation of lip rounding and its perception.- Dichotic signs of speech mode listening.- Speech perception in children.- V General Discussion and Tentative Conclusions.- Speech understanding systems and speech perception theory.- Some psycholinguists’ reactions to the symposium on dynamic aspects of speech perception.- Tentative Conclusions.