Table of contents for The ASA edition of Speech and hearing in communication / by Harvey Fletcher.

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      Preface   ......................................................................................v
      Introduction ................................................................................. ix
      Harvey Fletcher 1884-1981...................................................................... A

 1    The Speech  Sounds of English..................................................................1
 2    The Speaking Mechanism ........................................................................6
 3    Characteristics of Speech Waves ............................................................. 25
 4    Acoustical Speech Powers .....................................................................68
 5    Frequency of Occurrence of the Different Speech Sounds ...................................... 89
 6    Noise ........................................................................................97
 7    Mechanism of Hearing........................................................................ 106
 8    Hearing Acuity ..............................................................................119
 9    Minimum Perceptible Changes in Frequency and Sound Pressure Level........................... 144
10    Masking Effects............................................................................. 153
11    Loudness ................................................................................... 176
12    Binaural Hearing Effects.................................................................... 210
13    Auditory Perspective........................................................................ 217
14    Space-Time Pattern Theory of Hearing........................................................ 230
15    Methods of Measuring the Recognition Aspect of Speech ...................................... 278
16    Specification of the Telephone System Responses,
         Listener Acuities, and Proficiencies of Talker-Listener Pairs............................ 303
17    Methods of Calculating Articulation Scores.................................................. 318
18    Effects of Distortion on the Individual Speech Sounds .......................................415
19    The Perception of Speech Sounds by Deafened Persons .........................................424
20    A Method of Computing the Percent Hearing Loss in Compensation Cases  ...................... 442

      Corrections and Comments to Speech and Hearing in Communications ........................... 449
      An Annotated, Chronological Bibliography of Harvey Fletcher ................................ 457
      Author Index      .......................................................................... 465
      General Index      ......................................................................... 469