The cognitive benefits of co-speech gestures have been widely described (eg, McNeill,
1992; Goldin-Meadow, 2003). The increase in word recall has been highlighted as one of …

Although the positive effects of iconic gestures on word recall and comprehension by
children have been clearly established, less is known about the benefits of beat gestures …

Although research has shown that adults can benefit from the presence of beat gestures in
word recall tasks, studies have failed to conclusively generalize these findings to preschool …

Previous research has shown that gestures are beneficial for language learning. This
doctoral thesis centers on the effects of beat gestures–ie, hand and arm gestures that are …

Research has shown that beat gestures are temporally integrated with speech (eg, Krahmer
& Swerts, 2007) and facilitate information recall (eg, So et al., 2012; Igualada et al., 2014) …

Previous evidence suggests that children's mastery of prosodic modulations to signal the
informational status of discourse referents emerges quite late in development. In the present …

Research in audiovisual prosody has shown that typically beat gestures are temporally
integrated with prominent positions in speech (eg,[1, 2]). There is independent evidence that …

Our language experience often involves face-to-face interaction through simultaneous
perception of the speaker's voice as well as facial and body movements. While it has been …

Hand gestures are an integral part of human communication (Gullberg et al., 2010).
Research has demonstrated that referential (those that reflect meaning) gestures, begin to …

What role do contrastive accents play in children's discourse comprehension? By 6 years of
age, children use contrastive accents during online comprehension to predict upcoming …