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Guidepost-based reference frame

Involves an external secondary reference object which is typically a nonanimate entity and which is external to the primary reference object. For instance, in a sentence such as the following: The bike is the river side of the office block, the river, the external secondary reference object, identifies that portion of the office block, the primary reference object, with respect to which the bike is located.

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