Lingual articulation in humans is one of the primary means of vocal tract resonance filtering that produces the characteristic vowel formants of speech. In songbirds, the function of the tongue in song has not been thoroughly examined, although recent research has identified the oropharyngeal-esophageal cavity as a resonance filter that is actively tuned to the frequency of the song. In norther...

Judging from the volume of writing that has appeared in the dental literature and the number of courses presented in recent years on jaw movements and articulators, it would seem that most of the questions related to this subject would have been resolved. The variety and sophistication of the research techniques employed to measure mandibular movements and positions indicate the interest and de...

Heeter and Winn explore the concept of meaningful play, describe highlights of the Meaningful Play: Designing and studying games that matter conference, and introduce the articles in this issue.

We present an approach to the disambiguation of cluster labels that capitalizes on the notion of semantic similarity to assign WordNet senses to cluster labels. The approach provides interesting insights on how document clustering can provide the basis for developing a novel approach to word sense disambiguation.

This paper investigates the production and perception of different articulation techniques on the saxophone. In a production experiment, two melodies were recorded that required different effectors to play the tones (tongue-only actions, finger-only actions, combined tongue and finger actions) at three different tempi. A sensor saxophone reed was developed to monitor tongue-reed interactions du...