This collection of recent papers in Laboratory Phonology approaches phonological theory from
several different empirical directions. Psycholinguistic research into the perception and
production of speech has produced results that challenge current conceptions about phonological
structure. Field work studies provide fresh insights into the structure of phonological
features and the phonology-phonetics interface is investigated in phonetic research involving
both segments and prosody while the role of underspecification is put to the test in automatic
speech recognition.