The articles in this report explore the status and progress of studies on the nature of speech, instrumentation for its investigation, and practical research applications. Titles of the papers and their authors are as follows: (1) "Phonological Awareness: The Role of the Reading Experience" (Virginia A. Mann); (2) "An Investigation of Speech Perception Abilities in Children Who Differ in Reading Skill" (Susan Brady, Erica Poggie, and Michele Merlo); (3) "Phonological and Morphological Analysis by Skilled Readers of Serbo-Croatian" (Laurie B. Feldman); (4) "Visual and Production Similarity of the Handshapes of the American Manual Alphabet" (John T. Richards and Vicki L. Hanson); (5) "Short-term Memory for Printed English Words by Congenitally Deaf Signers: Evidence of Sign-Based Coding Reconsidered" (Vicki L. Hanson and Edward H. Licktenstein); (6) "Morphophonology and Lexical Organization in Deaf Readers" (Vicki L. Hanson and Deborah Wilkenfeld); (7) "Perceptual Constraints and Phonological Change: A Study of Nasal Vowel Height" (Patrice Streeter Beddor, Rena Arens Krakow, and Louis M. Goldstein); (8) "The Thai Tonal Space" (Arthur S. Abramson); (9) "P-Centers Are Unaffected by Phonetic Categorization" (Andre Maurice Cooper, D. H. Whalen, and Carol Ann Fowler); (10) "Two Cheers for Direct Realism" (Michael Studdert-Kennedy); (11) "An Event Approach to the Study of Speech Perception from a Direct-Realist Perspective" (Carol A. Fowler); (12) "The Dynamical Perspective on Speech Production: Data and Theory" (J. A. S. Kelso, E. L. Saltzman, and B. Tuller); (13) "The Velotrace: a Device for Monitoring Velar Position" (Satoshi Horiguchi and Fredericka Bell-Berti); (14) "Towards an Articulatory Phonology" (Catherine P. Browman and Louis M. Goldstein); (15) "Representation of Voicing Contrasts Using Articulatory Gestures" (Louis Goldstein and Catherine P. Browman); and (16) "Mainstreaming Movement Science" (J. A. S. Kelso). (HTH)