Progress Report No. 22

(1998)

Research Supported by:

Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Public Health Service

National Institutes of Health

Research Grant No. DC-00111

and

National Institutes of Health

Training Grant No. DC-00012

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Table of Contents

I. Extended Manuscripts............................................................................................................ 1

• Speech Perception and Spoken Word Recognition: Research and Theory

Miranda Cleary and David B. Pisoni.............................................................................. 3

• Speech Production by Users of Cochlear Implants: A Review

Mario A. Svirsky and Steven B. Chin............................................................................ 47

• Recognition of Spoken Words by Native and Non-Native Listeners: Talker-, Listener-,

and Item-Related Factors

Ann R. Bradlow and David B. Pisoni............................................................................ 73

• Perception of Wordlikeness: Effects of Segment Probability and Length on

Subjective Ratings and Processing of Non-Word Sound Patterns

Nathan R. Large, Stefan A. Frisch and David B. Pisoni................................................ 95

• The Phonetics of Phonological Speech Errors: An Acoustic Analysis of /s/ and /z/

Errors by Four Talkers

Stefan Frisch and Richard Wright............................................................................... 125

• The Development of the Lexicon in Deaf Children with Cochlear Implants:

New Insights into Language Acquisition

Stefan Frisch and David B. Pisoni.............................................................................. 155

• The Lexical Neighborhood Test: Test- Retest Reliability and Inter-List Equivalency

Karen I. Kirk, Laurie S. Eisenberg, Amy S. Martinez and Marcia Hay-McCutcheon.. 177

• Effects of Lexical Neighborhoods on Immediate Memory Span for Spoken Words:

A First Report

Winston D. Goh and David B. Pisoni.......................................................................... 195

• Subjective Familiarty of Words: Analysis of the Hoosier Mental Lexicon

Nathan R. Large and David B. Pisoni......................................................................... 215

• Performance of a Sample of Hearing-Impaired Children on an Auditory-Spatial

Working Memory Task and its Relation to Open-Set Word Recognition Skills

Miranda Cleary, David B. Pisoni and Karen I. Kirk................................................... 231

• Performance of Normal-Hearing Children on a New Working Memory Span Task

Janna Carlson, Miranda Cleary and David B. Pisoni................................................. 251

II. Short Reports and Work-in Progress..................................................................................... 277

• The Structure of Mental Lexicons of Pediatric Cochlear Implant Users:

A Preliminary Report

Steven B. Chin, Ted A. Meyer, Marcia Hay-McCutcheon,

Gary A. Wright and David B. Pisoni............................................................................ 279

• Minimal Pairs in the Perception and Production of Speech by Pediatric Users of

Cochlear Implants

Steven B. Chin and Kevin R. Finnegan........................................................................ 291

• Speech Perception in Children with the Clarion (CIS), Nuceus-22 (SPEAK)

Cochlear Implant or Hearing Aids

Ted A. Meyer and Mario A. Svirsky............................................................................ 305

• Behavioral Data to Model Open-Set Word Recognition and Lexical Organization

Stefan Frisch, Ted A. Meyer, David B. Pisoni, Mario A. Svirsky and Karen I. Kirk.... 311

• All Neighborhoods are not Created Equal: The Phonological P-Metric

and Spoken Word Recognition

Michael S. Vitevitch..................................................................................................... 317

• Modeling Phoneme and Open-Set Word Recognition by Cochlear Implant Users

Based on Psychophysical Performance: A Preliminary Report

Ted A. Meyer, Stefan Frisch, Mario A. Svirsky and David B. Pisoni........................... 329

• Working Memory in Deaf Children with Cochlear Implants: Correlations Between

Digit Span and Measures of Spoken Language Processing

David B. Pisoni and Ann Geers................................................................................... 335

• Lexical Neighborhoods and Subjective Intelligibility Ratings:

A Preliminary Report

Brian F. Bowdle and Richard Wright.......................................................................... 345

• Perception of “Place-Degraded Speech” by Normal-Hearing Listeners:

Some Preliminary Findings

Chris Quillet, Richard Wright and David B. Pisoni..................................................... 353

• Update: The Hoosier Audiovisual Multi-Talker Database

Lorin Lachs and Luis Hernandez................................................................................ 377

• Phonotactics, Neighborhood Activation, and Lexical Access

for Spoken Words: A Summary of Results

Michael S. Vitevitch, Paul A. Luce, David B. Pisoni, and Edward T. Auer.................. 389

• Eliciting Speech Reduction in the Laboratory: Assessment of a New Experimental Method

James Brink, Richard Wright and David B. Pisoni...................................................... 395

III. Publications: 1998............................................................................................................ 421