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, 2014 An examination of the role of ostension—the bodily manifestation of intention—-in word learning, and an investigation of the philosophical puzzles it poses. Ostension is bodily movement that manifests our engagement with things, whether we wish it to or not.
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Why languages differ : variation in the conventionalization of constraints on inference [PDF]
, 2010 Sperber and Wilson (1996) and Wilson and Sperber (1993) have argued that communication involves two processes, ostension and inference, but they also assume there is a coding-decoding stage of communication and a functional distinction between lexical ...
LaPolla, Randy J.
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The how and why of syntactic relations [PDF]
, 2010 Human communication takes place when one person does something that when seen or heard by another person is taken to be done with the intention to communicate, and the other person, having seen the communicator show his or her intention to communicate ...
LaPolla, Randy J.
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An adaptive technique for content-based image retrieval [PDF]
, 2006 We discuss an adaptive approach towards Content-Based Image Retrieval. It is based on the Ostensive Model of developing information needs—a special kind of relevance feedback model that learns from implicit user feedback and adds a temporal notion to ...
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Meta-Illusionism and Qualia Quietism [PDF]
, 2016 Many so-called problems in contemporary philosophy of mind depend for their expression on a collection of inter-defined technical terms, a few of which are qualia, phenomenal property, and what-it’s-like-ness. I express my scepticism about Keith Frankish’
Mandik, Pete
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Ars & Humanitas, 2019 Starting from temporality as the organizing principle of any communicative situation, the present study investigates the use of verbal paradigms in Spanish when expressing memory and forgetfulness in a fictional speech act, such as poetry.
Barbara Pihler Ciglič
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Plaatsen van verbeelding: Een etnografie van de TV detective tour [PDF]
, 2009 This article considers the phenomenon of the television detective tour: a guided tour of various locations known from popular television detective series. The main question is how the increasing popularity of such tours can be explained.
Reijnders, S.L. (Stijn)
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Compositionality and Statistics in Adjective Acquisition: 4-year-olds Interpret Tall and Short Based on the Size Distributions of Novel Noun Referents [PDF]
, 2008 Four experiments investigated 4-year-olds' understanding of adjective-noun compositionality and their sensitivity to statistics when interpreting scalar adjectives.
Barner, David, Snedeker, Jesse
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Tags and Folksonomies as Artifacts of Meaning. [PDF]
, 2010 International audienceThe advent of the so-called Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web, for all their seemingly apparent (Floridi, 2009) differences, was instrumental in a renewed interest in questions that used to be addressed solely by the philosophy of ...
Monnin, Alexandre
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Hilary Putnam (1926-2016): A Lifetime Quest to Understand the Relationship between Mind, Language, and Reality [PDF]
, 2016 This is an extended intellectual obituary for Hilary ...
Anderson, David Leech
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