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Are Pointing Gestures Induced by Communicative Intention?

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Cognitive Behavioural Systems

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The aim of the paper is to present some ideas and observations on the communicative intentionality of pointing gestures. The material under study consists of twenty ”origami” dialogue tasks, half of them recorded in mutual visibility (MV) and half in lack visibility (LV) condition. Two participants took part in each dialogue sessions: Instructor Giver (IG) and Instructor Follower (IF). The analysis is focused on selected features of pointing gestures as well as on the semantic aspects of the verbal expressions realised concurrently with pointings: semantic content of verbal expressions realised concurrently with pointing gestures, preceding context of the utterances, place of pointing gestures’ realisation in gesture space and spatial perspective of their realisation are taken into consideration as potential cues of communicative intentions

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  1. Institute of Linguistics AMU Poland, Center for Speech and Language Processing AMU Poland, Poland

    Ewa Jarmolowicz-Nowikow

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  1. Department of Psychology, and IIASS, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Italy

    Anna Esposito

  2. Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, sezione di Napoli Osservatorio Vesuviano, Napoli, Italy

    Antonietta M. Esposito

  3. School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

    Alessandro Vinciarelli

  4. Laboratory of Acoustics and Speech Communication, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062, Dresden, Germany

    Rüdiger Hoffmann

  5. Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, Anatolia College/ACT, P.O. Box 21021, 55510, Pylaia, Greece

    Vincent C. Müller

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Jarmolowicz-Nowikow, E. (2012). Are Pointing Gestures Induced by Communicative Intention?. In: Esposito, A., Esposito, A.M., Vinciarelli, A., Hoffmann, R., Müller, V.C. (eds) Cognitive Behavioural Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7403. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34584-5_33

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