Creatures like chimpanzees, bonobos, ravens and even some species of fish have been observed using “deictic gesturing,” a basic form of communication where an individual points or directs ...

More recently, studies of other animals such as ravens and fish show that they also use some simple gestures to point out ...

They also noted that the wing-fluttering "after-you" gesture was aimed at the mate and not the nest box, meaning that it wasn ...

Gliga, T. & Csibra, G. One-year-old infants appreciate the referential nature of deictic gestures and words. Psychological Science 20, 347-353 (2009). Grice, H. P. Utterers' meaning and intentions.

We then ask whether there are reasons to favor one of these grammar schemas over the other, and examine an argument according to which the proper formalization of deictic utterances requires adoption ...

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