| Abstract | [Introduction]
I thank the commentators for their thoughtful and provocative commentaries. In response to them, I will attempt to counter those criticisms that must be countered for a direct-realist theory of the perception of speech events to be viable, and discuss comments that may serve to develop or alter the form of the theory as I proposed it. I will begin by clarifying the goals of the target article as I saw them; next I will consider a criticism that was raised by almost every commentator in some form; finally, I will address other important topics raised by individual commentators. |