Research supported in part by a grant from the U.S. Office of Education. (DD)

Compressed speech is described as maintaining all consonant sounds, reducing all vowel sounds, and eradicating as closely as possible all pauses. (DS)

These data appear to support the conception that the speech motor system can act as a mediator of other motor systems when speech'' is experimentally manipulated. (Author)

The perception of syllable-initial stop consonants as voiced or voiceless was shown to depend on prevailing rate of articulation. Reducing articulatory rate of a precursor phrase causes a greater proportion of test consonants to be identified as voiced. Timing should be regarded as intrinsic to the acoustical specifications of phonetic events.…

Presents an overview of old and new apparatus which has been useful in providing visual and auditory feedback and feedforward in the teaching and learning of pronounciation. Includes extensive bibliographic references. (PMJ)

Reports that when hearing-impaired children imitated nonsense words containing bilabial consonants, the rank order of correct responses and total choices was "b" (highest), "m," and "p" (lowest). The data are discussed in terms of auditory-visual perceptions of the hearing impaired and the order of the sounds in normal-hearing children. (Author/RL)

This article discusses a study designed to obtain some information regarding the nature of the awareness children have of their own articulatory activity and the level of mental development at which this awareness appears. (Author/CFM)

The magnitudes and patterns of two-point difference limens (DL) of the tongue were studied in children with and without articulation errors. Many children with misarticulation of /r/ had DLs that differed in magnitude and pattern from those of children with normal articulation and those with misarticulations of /s/. (NCR)