This document, containing 15 articles and 2 abstracts, is a report on the current status and progress of speech research. The following topics are investigated: phonological fusion, phonetic prerequisites for first-language learning, auditory and phonetic levels of processing, auditory short-term memory in vowel perception, hemispheric specialization for speech perception, oral feedback under anesthesia, laryngeal control in Korean stop production, and intonation in speech. A list of related publications and reports is also included. (DD)