This report is one of a regular series on the status and progress of studies on the nature of speech, instrumentation for its investigation, and practical implications. Manuscripts and extended reports cover the following topics: (1) "On Learning a New Contrast," (2) "Letter Confusions and reversals of Sequence in the Beginning Reader: Implications for Orton's Theory of Developmental Dyslexia," (3) "Perception of Dichotically Presented Steady-State Vowels as a Function of Interaural Delay," (4) "Perceptual Competition Between Speech and Nonspeech," (5) "Temporal Order Perception of a Reversible Phoneme Cluster," (6) "Phonetic Ability and Related Anatomy of the Newborn and Adult Human, Neanderthal Man, and the Chimpanzee," (7) "A Voice for the Laboratory Computer," (8) "Audible Outputs of Reading Machines for the Blind," and (9) "THESIS: Temporal Factors in Perception of Dichotically Presented Stop Consonants and Vowels." (Author)