Books in the Speech Research series

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Editor's Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Auditory System in Relation to Speech Perception -- Cochlear Modelling and Physiology / Duifhuis, H. -- Coding of Fundamental Frequency in Auditory Nerve Fibers: Effects of Signal Level and Phase Spectrum. / Horst, J. Wiebe / Javel, Eric / Farley, Glenn R. -- Coding of the Pitch of Harmonic and Inharmonic Complex Tones in the Interspike Intervals of Auditory-Nerve Fibers. / Delgutte, Bertrand / Cariani, Peter -- Processing of the Auditory-Nerve Code for Speech by Populations of Cells in the Anteroventral Cochlear Nucleus / Sachs, Murray B. / Blackburn, Carol C. / Banks, M.I. / Wang, Xiaoqin -- Nonlinearities in the Peripheral Encoding of Spectral Notches / Oomens, P.A.J. / Breed, A.J. / Boer, E. de / Schouten, M.E.H. -- Auditory Models as Preprocessors for Speech Recognition / Patterson, Roy D. / Holdsworth, John / Allerhand, Michael -- Temporal Resolution and Modulation Analysis in Models of the Auditory System / Kohlrausch, Armin / Püschel, Dirk / Alphei, Henning -- Preadaptations in the Auditory System of Mammals for Phoneme Perception / Ehret, Günter -- Chapter 2 Separation of Simultaneous Signals -- Segregation of the Responses to Paired Vowels in the Auditory Nerve of the Guinea-Pig Using Autocorrelation / Palmer, A.R. -- Modelling Sound Source Separation / Cooke, Martin -- Listening to two Things at Once / Darwin, CJ. -- Detecting F0 Differences and Pitch-Pulse Asynchronies / Carlyon, Robert P. -- Roles of Harmonicity and Coherent Frequency Modulation in Auditory Grouping. / Summerfield, Quentin -- Comodulation Masking Release and Modulation Discrimination Interference / Moore, Brian C.J. -- Across-band Processing of Dynamically Varying Stimuli / Fantini, Deborah A. / Moore, Brian C.J. -- Effectiveness of Comodulation Masking Release / Brink, Willem A.C. van den / Houtgast, Tammo / Smoorenburg, Guido F. -- The Masking of Modulations in Relation to Speech Perception / Festen, Joost ¿. -- Chapter 3 Perception of Spectral Change and Timbre -- What Do We Know about Perception of Dynamic and Complex Signals, and how Relevant Is It to Speech Perception? / Houtsma, A.J.M. -- On the Perception of Spectral Changes in Noise Bands / Versfeld, Niek J. -- Young Infants' Discrimination of Confusable Speech Signals / Lacerda, Francisco -- Auditory Analysis of Speech Gestures / Schwartz, Jean-Luc / Beautemps, Denis / Arrouas, Yonnel / Escudier, Pierre -- Perceiving Acoustic Components of Speech / Espinoza-Varas, Bias -- Chapter 4 Loss of Spectral and Temporal Resolution -- Speech Recognition Using Only Temporal Cues / Shannon, Robert V. / Zeng, Fan-Gang / Wygonski, John -- Auditory Pattern Perception in the Profoundly Hearing Impaired / Son, Nic van / Bosman, Arjan / Lamoré, Pieter J.J. / Smoorenburg, Guido F. -- Effect of Spectral Envelope Smearing on Phoneme Identification / Keurs, Mariken ter / Festen, Joost ¿. / Plomp, Reinier -- Chapter 5 Phoneme Perception -- Effects of Token Variability on Vowel Identification / Uchanski, Rosalie M. / Millier, Kathleen M. / Reed, Charlotte M. / Braida, Louis D. -- Evaluation of Prototypes and Exemplars in Perceptual Space for Place Contrast / Li, Xiaofeng / Pastore, Richard E. -- Different Discrimination Strategies for Vowels and Consonants / Schouten, Bert / Hessen, Arjan van -- Auditory Metrics for Speech Perception / Sawusch, James R. -- Chapter 6 Word Perception and Beyond -- The Interface Between Acoustic-Phonetic and Lexical Processing / Frauenfelder, Uli ¿. -- Listening to Speech Through an Adaptive Window of Analysis / Nusbaum, Howard C. / Henly, Anne S. -- Integration of Acoustic-Phonetic Cues in Word Segmentation / Quené, Hugo -- Relations between Phoneme Scores and Syllable Scores for Normal-Hearing and Hearing-Impaired Subjects / Bosman, Arjan / Smoorenburg, Guido F. / Bronkhorst, Adelbert W. -- From Speech to Language: On Auditory Information Processing / Terhardt, E. -- Backmatter

Reflecting Fujimura's long-standing interests, this volume provides a wider perspective on the various aspects of speech production (physical, psychological, syntactic and information theoretic) and their relationship to the structure of speech and language.