„A detailed collection of forward-thinking seminal articles... enables both the student and researcher to understand the most complicated aspects of the subject... If you have to purchase just one core text on speech perception- definitely buy this! ... an exciting, stimulating and informative collection of readings available as a single volume that is excellent value for money. The editors have assembled a wonderful resource.“ (Reference Reviews)„The Handbook includes a rich and comprehensive set ofpapers providing a state-of-the-art view of current research onspeech perception. David Pisoni and Robert Remez have done aremarkable job in pulling together this broad and important rangeof topics contributed by many of the leading researchers in thefield. The chapters are well-written, interesting, and provocative. Taken together, The Handbook of Speech Perception providesan exciting, stimulating, and informative set of readings that is amust-read for anyone interested in learning about this importantfield of research.“
-Sheila E. Blumstein, Brown University
„This is a most welcome book. For the expert who is well awareof the complexity of the issues and methods in speech perception, this handbook is a godsend for its thoroughness. It covers thefield from a to z including, most notably, extended examination ofthe challenges that speech variability presents to the listener andthat special listeners face. For the student or researcher fromoutside the field, the handbook is a lively introduction to theextraordinary progress that the study of speech perception hasenjoyed over the last few decades.“
-Gary Dell, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
„This real treasury marks the maturity of the field of speechperception, making the whole body of work widely available in onevolume as never before. The core of experimental studies in youngadults that defined the field 30 years ago was based in phonology, acoustic phonetics, perception psychology, and physiology. Theeditors are to be congratulated on updating these roots, whilereflecting the kaleidoscopic extension into studies with infants, the elderly, and distinct patient groups, and consolidating thelink to neuroscience.“
-Mark Haggard, MRC, Cambridge, UK
„This is a necessary volume. At a time when advances in ourunderstanding of speech perception are as likely to come fromfunctional imaging techniques, Optimality Theory, or the study ofspeech perception mediated by cochlear implants, researchers need asingle volume that captures the state of inquiry across thespectrum of speech research. Pisoni and Remez have assembled awonderful resource.“
-David W. Gow, Jr., The Massachusetts GeneralHospital
„With the addition of this volume to the Blackwell series ofhandbooks in linguistics, the study of speech perception takes itsrightful place as an independent and mature subdiscipline oflinguistics. Covering a wide range of topics, from the encoding andneural representation of speech to the recognition of linguisticand paralinguistic properties by a variety of listener populations, this volume both surveys the current landscape of speech perceptionresearch and sets an agenda for the future development of thefield.“
-Ann Bradlow, Northwestern University