Abstract
Morton (1998) criticizes some studies of distance assessment (ranging) (Naguib 1996a, 1997a) and arguments on effects of a receiver's familiarity with the song type on ranging (Naguib 1995, 1996b, 1997a). Unfortunately, Morton's arguments on ranging have not been very clear over the years. In addition, by discriminating between "in-memory" and "out-of-memory" songs, Morton imposes a dichotomy on ranging which I view as inadequate. I will argue that both familiarity with song types and the ability to range them are continuous phenomena. Ranging is influenced by receivers' abilities to use prior information about features of a signal to assess its degradation and to associate this degradation with propagation distance. I will further discuss why playback experiments that prevent subjects from approaching the loudspeaker during playback are better suited to study ranging and I will respond to Morton's specific criticism of one of my experiments (Naguib 1997a).
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