Events 
| CRC Colloquium |
| Montag, 04.06.2007 16:00 - 18:00 | |
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Matthew Stone Rutgers University http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~mdstone/ "Formal Semantics of Iconic Gesture" We present a formal analysis of iconic coverbal gesture. Our model describes the incomplete meaning of gesture that's derivable from its form, and the pragmatic reasoning that yields a more specific interpretation. Our formalism builds on established models of discourse interpretation to capture key insights from the descriptive literature on gesture: synchronous speech and gesture express a single thought, but while the form of iconic gesture is an important clue to its interpretation, the content of gesture can be resolved only by linking it to its context. Joint work with Alex Lascarides, Edinburgh |
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| contact-person: | Hannes Rieser |
| homepage: | ariadne.coli.uni-bielefeld.de |