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Abstract. Despite its importance for human interaction, dialogue act recognition has attracted little psycholinguistic attention. We argue that the ability of humans to solve this problem, rapidly and online, speaks to the existence of specific mechanisms. We discuss a model of dialogue act recognition that accommodates multiple sources of information (from multiple modalities) in a single probabilistic and Bayesian framework, and consider some of the implications of how this model treats classically pragmatic aspects of interaction.