ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I discuss an approach to speech perception borrowing much from the Gestalt psychologists. The approach stresses the impor tance of the relations among acoustic components of the speech signal as a source of information for perception. It emphasizes viewing the speech signal as integrated acoustic patterns in time rather than as the segregated frequency patterns in space seen in speech spectrograms. It is the oscil loscope, not the spectrograph, which provides the analog most appro priate for this approach.
