Modifies a noun

• definition: The example given by ostensive definition helps us to form a concept.

• act: The rest of the process is then figuring out the reason for the communicator making that particular ostensive act.

• teaching: With different training the same ostensive teaching of these words would have effected a quite different understanding.

• communication: You are right about the need to study misunderstanding in a theory of ostensive communication.

• reference: Like the postliberal approach of Frei and Lindbeck, what matters is the sense of the text, not so much its ostensive reference.

• behavior: Toddlers ' novel word learning: Effects of phonological representation, vocabulary size and parents ' ostensive behavior.