Human ostension enhances attentiveness but not performance in domestic pigs [PDF]
Scientific ReportsHumans convey their communicative intentions ostensively, e.g., calling others’ name and establishing eye-contact. Also when interacting with animals, humans use ostension. In some companion-animal species, ostension increases attentiveness and/or alters
Ariane Veit, Attila Andics
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Quantifier spreading: children misled by ostensive cues [PDF]
Glossa, 2017 This paper calls attention to a methodological problem of acquisition experiments. It shows that the economy of the stimulus employed in child language experiments may lend an increased ostensive effect to the message communicated to the child.
Katalin É. Kiss, Tamás Zétényi
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Infants learn enduring functions of novel tools from action demonstrations. [PDF]
J Exp Child Psychol, 2015 According to recent theoretical proposals, one function of infant goal attribution is to support early social learning of artifact functions from instrumental actions, and one function of infant sensitivity to communication is to support early ...
Hernik M, Csibra G.
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Neural responses to multimodal ostensive signals in 5-month-old infants. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Infants' sensitivity to ostensive signals, such as direct eye contact and infant-directed speech, is well documented in the literature. We investigated how infants interpret such signals by assessing common processing mechanisms devoted to them and by ...
Eugenio Parise, Gergely Csibra
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No evidence for adult smartphone use affecting attribution of communicative intention in toddlers: Online imitation study using the Sock Ball Task. [PDF]
PLoS ONEAdults infer others' communicative intentions, or lack thereof, from various types of information. Young children may be initially limited to attributions based on a small set of ostensive signals.
Solveig Flatebø +2 more
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Production and Comprehension of Gestures between Orang-Utans (Pongo pygmaeus) in a Referential Communication Game. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Orang-utans played a communication game in two studies testing their ability to produce and comprehend requestive pointing. While the 'communicator' could see but not obtain hidden food, the 'donor' could release the food to the communicator, but could ...
Richard Moore +2 more
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Interaction and ostension: the myth of 4th-order intentionality [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2022 Christine Sievers
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Meaning in great ape communication: summarising the debate. [PDF]
Anim Cogn, 2016 Scott-Phillips TC.
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Relevance and multimodal prosody: implications for L2 teaching and learning
Frontiers in Communication, 2023 In this paper, I build on Scott's relevance-theoretic account of contrastive stress. Contrastive stress works as an extra cue to ostension in altering the salience of a particular constituent in an utterance and, as a result, the salience of one ...
Pauline Madella
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