Speech perception has emerged as a major field of research over the past two decades, as enormous theoretical and technical changes have occurred. The study of speech perception has broadened in scope to encompass and appeal to a wide variety of disciplines including phonetics, auditory and speech science, cognitive science, experimental psychology, computer science, and informatics, among others. The Handbook of Speech Perception is a collection of seminal articles that offer a summary of the technical and theoretical accomplishments in this vital area of research on language processing.The Handbook of Speech Perception provides a comprehensive examination of the field and is an essential addition to a growing understanding and appreciation of its far-reaching theoretical and clinical relevance.

David B. Pisoni is Chancellor's Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science and Adjunct Professor of Linguistics at Indiana University in Bloomington. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery at the Indiana University School of Medicine. He has published numerous articles on topics such as speech synthesis, speech perception and spoken word recognition, and acoustic phonetics in a wide variety of scientific journals including Science, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Ear and Hearing, and Speech Communication.
Robert E. Remez is Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Psychology at Barnard College, Columbia University. His research on the perception and production of speech has focused on perceptual organization and the identification of individual talkers. His research reports have appeared in a variety of scientific journals including Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Perception & Psychophysics, Psychological Review, Psychological Science, and Science.

List of Contributors.
Preface: Michael Studdert-Kennedy (Haskins Laboratories).
Introduction: David B. Pisoni (Indiana University) and Robert E. Remez (Barnard College).
Part I: Sensing Speech.
Part II: Perception of Linguistic Properties.
Part III: Perception of Indexical Properties.
Part IV: Speech Perception by Special Listeners.
Part V: Recognition of Spoken Words.
Part VI: Theoretical Perspectives.
Index