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In this paper I describe a formal semantics for iconic spatial gestures. My claim is that the meaning of iconic gestures can be captured with an appropriate mathematical theory of space and the familiar notion of intersecting modification. I support this claim with the analysis of some examples extracted from an annotated corpus of natural human-human interaction.
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Giorgolo, G. (2010). A Formal Semantics for Iconic Spatial Gestures. In: Aloni, M., Bastiaanse, H., de Jager, T., Schulz, K. (eds) Logic, Language and Meaning. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6042. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14287-1_31
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