Introductory textbook for undergraduate speech-language pathology or audiology students on speech perception.The Sounds of Speech. Basic Speech Acoustics. Perception of Vowels. Perception of Consonants. Categorical Perception. Motor Theory of Speech Perception. Distinctive Features and Phonetic Feature Detectors. A Theory of Acoustic Invariance. Dichotic Listening. Parallel Distributed Processing Models: Bottom-Up Versus Top-Down. Studies of Infant Speech Perception. Development of Speech Perception. Speech Perception in Animals. Disorders Affecting Speech Perception. References. Index.