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This study examined the behavioral compensation of speech influenced by delayed auditory feedback. It was hypothesized that delayed auditory feedback would yield similar compensation patterns as other auditory perturbations to speech do, in a hypothesis untested by previous experiments. The results of past studies which experimented with pitch, loudness, and formant frequencies look similar to each other, due to somatosensory feedback's role in adaptation. Compensatory responses, when measured against non-altered productions, seem to approach an asymptote, yielding incomplete compensations. Compensatory responses, when measured against the size of the perturbation, resemble a decreasing exponential function, as relative magnitudes get drastically smaller with increasing perturbation size. The data supported the hypothesis as predicted, meaning the compensation to delayed auditory feedback appears to follow the same principles as those observed in other altered auditory feedback paradigms. These results su...