One of a series of semi-annual reports, this publication contains 25 articles which report the status and progress of studies on the nature of speech, instruments for its investigation, and practical applications. Articles are as follows: "Acoustic Shards, Perceptual Glue" (Robert E. Remez and Philip E. Rubin); "F0 Gives Voicing Information Even with Unambiguous VOTs" (Doug Whalen); "Articulatory Phonology: An Overview" (Catherine P. Browman and Louis Goldstein); "Acoustic Evidence for Gestural Overlap in Consonant Sequences" (Elizabeth C. Zsiga); "Acoustic Evidence for the Development of Gestural Coordination in the Speech of 2-Year-Olds: A Longitudinal Study" (Elizabeth Whitney Goodell and Michael Studdert-Kennedy); "Gestures, Features, and Segments in Early Child Speech" (Michael Studdert-Kennedy and Elizabeth Whitney Goodell); "An Aerodynamic Evaluation of Parkinsonian Dysarthria: Laryngeal and Supralaryngeal Manifestations" (L. Carol Gracco and others); "Effects of Alterations in Auditory Feedback and Speech Rate on Stuttering Frequency" (Joseph Kalinowsky and others); "Phonetic Recoding of Phonologically Ambiguous Printed Words" (Ram Frost and Michael Kampf); "Reading Consonants and Guessing Vowels: Visual Word Recognition in Hebrew Orthography" (Ram Frost and Shlomo Bentin); "The Reading Process Is Different for Different Orthographies: The Orthographic Depth Hypothesis" (Leonard Katz and Ram Frost); "An Examination of 'The Simple View of Reading'" (Lois G. Dreyer and Leonard Katz); "Phonological Awareness, Reading, and Reading Acquisition: A Survey and Appraisal of Current Knowledge" (Shlomo Bentin); "Morphological Analysis in Word Recognition" (Laurie B. Feldman and Darinka Andjelkovic); "Can Theories of Word Recognition Remain Stubbornly Nonphonological?" (Claudia Carello and others); "Poor Readers Are Not Easy to Fool: Comprehension of Adjectives with Exceptional Control Properties" (Paul Macaruso and others); "A Review of Daniel Reisberg (Ed.), 'Auditory Imagery'" (Bruno H. Repp); "A Review of Mari Reiss Jones and Susan Holleran (Eds.), 'Cognitive Bases of Musical Communication'" (Bruno H. Repp); "Diversity and Commonality in Music Performance; An Analysis of Timing Microstructure in Schumann's 'Traumerei'" (Bruno H. Repp); "A Review of 'Einfuhrung in die deutsche Phonetik' by Ursula Hirschfeld" (Bruno H. Repp); "Music as Motion: A Synopsis of Alexander Truslit's (1938) 'Gestaltung und Bewegung in der Musik'" (Bruno H. Repp); "Objective Performance Analysis as a Tool for the Musical Detective" (Bruno H. Repp); "Some Empirical Observations on Sound Level Properties of Recorded Piano Tunes" (Bruno H. Repp); "Probing the Cognitive Representation of Musical Time: Structural Constraints on the Perception of Timing Perturbations" (Bruno H. Repp); and "A Review of Yoh'ichi Tohkura, Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson, and Yoshinori Sagisaka (Eds.), 'Speech Perception, Production and Linguistic Structure'" (Bruno H. Repp). (RS)