OBJECTIVE The overall goal of this study was to determine the accuracy with which hearing-impaired children can detect the inflectional morphemes /s/ and /z/ when listening to speech through hearing aids. DESIGN In the first part of the study a perceptual test was developed with equal numbers of singular and plural nouns spoken by both a male and female talker. Thirty-six normal-hearing child...

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to express my deepest appreciation to my advisor Bobby Bodenheimer, who has guided me patiently through my research and encouraged me all the time. Without his guidance and persistent help this dissertation would not have been possible. I also thank him for his insightful thoughts and useful advice in my research and life during the past six years, which help me acc...

The accessibility of video technology has made it possible to utilize both the auditory and visual channels to present listening texts in the second language (L2) classroom and on L2 listening tests. However, there has been little research investigating the extent to which L2 listeners actually watch the video monitor when presented with a listening video text. The current study investigated te...

When synthetic fricative noises from a [f]-[s] continuum are followed by [a] or [u] (with appropriate formant transitions), listeners perceive more instances of [s] in the context of [u] than in the context of [a]. Presumably, this reflects a perceptual adjustment for the coarticulatory effect of rounded vowels on preceding fricatives. In Experiment 1, we found that varying the duration of the ...

I discuss the principle that bridges neural firing and perception. I start from the assumption that in order to understand perception, the state of neural firing in the brain is necessary and sufficient (the neuron doctrine in perception). I argue that the concept of response selectivity, currently the de facto central dogma in explaining the relation between neural firing and the brain, is inc...

During the first half of 2000 a pilot project on library and information science (LIS) journal quality was undertaken in the Asian region for the IFLA Round Table on Library and Information Science Journals (RTLISJ). It showed that a simple but effective methodology could be used to determine the most commonly acepted criteria for evaluating LIS journal quality, the success or otherwise of LIS ...