Active participation in a conversation is key to building common ground, since
understanding is jointly tailored by producers and recipients. Overhearers are deprived of …

People understand and produce language incrementally on a word by word basis. This
gives rise to many characteristic conversational phenomena including long mid-sentence …

A common, but largely untested, assumption in artificial intelligence (AI) and speech systems
is that results from experiments using only the English language as the communication …