This study examined how well 5-, 6-, 10-year-olds and adults integrated information from
spoken discourse with cohesive use of space in gesture, in comprehension. In Experiment 1 …

Purpose Semantic learning under 2 co-speech gesture conditions was investigated in
children with specific language impairment (SLI) and typically developing (TD) children …

Children produce iconic gestures conveying action information earlier than the ones
conveying attribute information (Özçalışkan, Gentner, & Goldin-Meadow, 2014). In this study …

In development, children often use gesture to communicate before they use words. The
question is whether these gestures merely precede language development or are …

This study examined the gesture and speech production and comprehension of 40 children
in the one-word stage of speech production. While observers have noted that children can …

Young children frequently gesture, and these gestures play a significant role in language
acquisition. Importantly, different gesture types appear in children's repertoire at different …

Speakers, including children at the early stages of language learning, rely on both gesture
and speech in unpacking communications addressed to them—with gesture influencing the …

Gesture is an important precursor of children's early language development, for example, in
the transition to multiword speech and as a predictor of later language abilities. However, it …

This study explores the use of deictic gestures, vocalizations and words compared to content-
loaded, or representational gestures and words in children's early one-and two-element …

Background Previous research suggests that speakers are especially likely to produce
manual communicative gestures when they have relative ease in thinking about the spatial …