The primary goal of Evolutionary Phonology is to explain recurrent sound patterns in spoken languages across time and space. One domain of explanation is diachronic, and much of my own work has focused on diachronic explanations (e.g. Blevins 2004, 2006a, To appear a, To appear b, To appear c, this volume). Another domain of explanation is synchronic. A range of synchronic factors, from the mec...

An in ter est ing di a logue about the is sues raised by Gray and Salzman sur faced in the first round of re views, and it oc curred to us that this di a logue could be of value to the read ers of Hu man–Com puter In ter ac tion. We in vited a num ber of peo ple in the field to sub mit com men tar ies on the ar ti cle. These were re viewed and re vised, with all com men ta tors see ing each oth...

I would like to thank Benj Hellie, Chris Peacocke, and Susanna Siegel for their very interesting commentaries on The Character of Consciousness. All of them focus mainly on issues from the second half of the book, especially issues concerning the contents of consciousness. Hellie focuses especially on the role of acquaintance and perceptual attention in perception and introspection and on the o...

This paper describes the contribution of automatic speech recognition (ASR) within the framework of MUMIS (Multimedia Indexing and Searching Environment). The domain is football commentaries. The initial results of carrying out ASR on Dutch and English football commentaries are presented. We found that overall word error rates are high, but application specific words are recognized reasonably w...