Abstract
The paper reviews selected studies in speech perception, most of them published in the past five years. Topics include the contributions of prosody to segmental perception, the problems of segmentation and invariance, categorical perception of speech and non-speech, the role of feature detectors, the scaling of speech sounds to an auditory-articulatory space, acoustic phonetic dependencies within the syllable, the contributions of higher order (nonphonetic) factors to the comprehension of fluent speech, and cerebral specialization. The bias of the paper is toward viewing phonetic segments as abstract processes that link sound and articulation, and that become available to the listener through specialized sensorimotor mechanisms.
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