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The Role of Gaze and the Semantics of Demonstratives in Referent Selection (Short Paper) Chen, Crystal H. Y. Tieu, Lyn Pérez-Leroux, Ana T. Demonstratives spatial language proximal-distal contrast referent distance joint attention coordination gesture deixis referent selection experimental semantics Demonstratives (this/that) situate objects in space with the aid of gestures and a proximal-distal contrast. However, it is unclear how these cues interact to aid the listener in referent selection. The current paper presents a referent selection task where listeners choose an object out of a group of objects based on a physical and verbal cue provided by a speaker. Results indicate that listeners are sensitive to a variety of cues, but only integrate the minimum amount of information necessary for referent selection, with physical cues being prioritized over the semantic contributions of the demonstrative. Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik Crystal H. Y. Chen and Lyn Tieu and Ana T. Pérez-Leroux 2024 Is Part Of LIPIcs, Volume 315, 16th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2024) InProceedings Text doc-type:ResearchArticle publishedVersion application/pdf doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2024.20 urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-208352 https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2024.20 eng https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode