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Gestures and Signs Are Phrases Not Words: A High Definition Account

2025-11-25

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Traditional linguistic analysis segments gestures and signs into discrete morphemes—handshape, location, movement—treating these as combinable building blocks. This segmentation, however, reflects analytical resolution rather than ontological structure. At coarse-grained analysis, continuous trajectorial dynamics \textit{appear} segmented because fine distinctions fall below the analytical thresholds of the model'...

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10.20944/preprints202511.1801.v1
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