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ric tools that are able to objectively measure functional hearing abilities, in addition to thresholds that are ob- tained via the audiogram. As the book shows, many of the tasks we perform with our hearing in everyday life, such as communicating with someone in a room full of other people also communicating, have been shown to be related with sensitivity to TFS.
One slight disappointment is that the book does not re- turn to this theme and further explore the issues con- cerning whether a test of TFS sensitivity could be used as a clinical tool to augment the audiogram. Nonethe- less, the book advances the current thinking on TFS and will provide an excellent reference to researchers and practitioners alike.
Robert F. Port is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at In- diana University where he has worked for 39 years. He received his PhD at University of Connecticut in linguistics, and while at Indiana he helped found the Cognitive Science Program 25 years ago. His research has centered on the
phonetics of English, German, Japanese, and other languag- es with an emphasis on details of speech timing. In the fall of 2014, he served as Technical Program Chair for the India- napolis Meeting of the ASA and this year he begins service on the Society’s Archives and History Committee.
References
Clopper, C., Pisoni, D. B., and de Jong, K. (2004). Acoustic characteristics of the vowel systems of six regional varieties of American English. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 118, 1661-1676.
Heeren, W. F. L., and van Heuven, V. J. (2014). The interaction of lexical and phrasal prosody in whispered speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 136, 3272-3289.
Ménard, L., Toupin, C., Baum, S., Drouin, S., Aubin, J., and Tiede, M. (2013). Acoustic and articulatory analysis of French vowels produced by congenitally blind adults and sighted adults. Journal of the Acoustical Soci- ety of America 134, 2975-2987.
Acoustics Today Interns (ATI)
An opportunity for graduate students and early career acousticians who are members of ASA to serve the Society and gain experience in publication of a major scientific magazine.
Contact the magazine editor, Arthur Popper, to find out more about the ATI program. (apopper@umd.edu)
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