A pilot study investigated the role of one response index (specifically, subject's ratings of their spelling accuracy) that was presumed to be predictive of the amount of practice needed to acquire the spelling of a word and gathered data relevant to the nature of practice needed on a word. The study was conducted to aid in the design of a…

Concludes a three-part symposium with eight prominent voice teachers on voice teaching methods. In this part, the teachers discuss placement, voice breaks, tone deafness, covered tone, and developing volume and offer some final general comments. (Editor)

Considered are testing and teaching suggestions for developing auditory discrimination abilities in children with spelling difficulties. (CL)

The relatedness of four elements (tone, white noise, click, and a buzz) making up a recycled pattern was varied to determine the effects of streaming (sounds that break into separate channels) on the ease of correctly ordering the elements. Results suggest the organization of elements into streams by similarity supplants the organization by…

Infants, preschoolers, and adults were tested to determine the shortest time interval at which they would respond to the precedence effect, an auditory phenomenon produced by presenting the same sound through two loudspeakers with the input to one loudspeaker delayed in relation to the other. Results revealed developmental differences in threshold…

Three studies were designed to examine infants' bisensory responsiveness to temporally modulated stimulation by varying frequency while keeping intensity constant, by varying both frequency and intensity together, and by varying intensity while keeping temporal frequency constant. Findings indicate that sound influences visual preferences via…

The E1 group was taught using visual and kinesthetic reinforcement; E2 using imitation; and C with a traditional, nonconceptual approach. Results showed no differences among groups in auditory discrimination, differences on vocal pitch-pattern accuracy between E1 and C and E2 and C, and differences in rote-singing accuracy between E2 and C.…

Examines auditory speech discrimination under the conditions of normal, inverted, and postinverted vision. Its intention was also to further study the generality of the effects of inversion-induced conflict. (Author/RK)

To investigate developmental differences in time-sharing performance, 60 boys, 20 in each of three age groups (7-, 10-, and 13-year-olds) performed an auditory matching task and a tracking task alone and concurrently, the latter under two sets of instructions. (Author/JH)

Research supported in part by the Japanese Ministry of Education. (DD)

An experimental group of education majors received 15 hours of phonetics instruction; auditory perception test results showed the group scored considerably higher than other students receiving no instruction. (SP)

Paper presented at the Meeting of Scandinavian Acoustical Society (Trondheim, Norway, May, 1968), and the Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (75th, Ottawa, Canada, May, 1968). (Author)

Listeners had more difficulty identifying vowels uttered by 4-year-olds classified as late language users than those uttered by 4-year-olds classified as normal. (MH)

One hundred forty-four students, randomly selected, were tested individually for pitch-discrimination and vocal pitch-matching abilities. Pitch-discrimination scores were used to subdivide each age group into three ability-level groups. There were significant differences in pitch-matching scores between the age groups but not within the ability…

Two studies investigated (1) the degree to which college students who were not music majors were able to discriminate identical melodies when extremely similar melodies were interpolated between test and recall melodies and (2) differences that might be attributed to either modal (major-minor) or meter (simple-compound) presentations. (Author/SR)