Previous research by Rader and Zukow-Goldring (2010, 2012, 2015) on word learning
found that infants benefit from a speaker's use of a show gesture. Here we examined …

Children seem able to efficiently interpret a variety of linguistic cues during speech
comprehension, yet have difficulty interpreting sources of nonlinguistic and paralinguistic …

Adults rely on both speech and gesture to provide children with information pertinent to new
word meanings. Parents were videotaped introducing new objects to their children (aged 1; …

Representational gestures are co-speech gestures that carry semantic content related to the
content of speech. Previous studies focusing on adult-adult conversation have investigated …

The aim of this study was to analyze the use of representational gestures from a multimodal
point of view in the transition from one‐word to multi‐word constructions. Twenty‐one …

The author wishes to acknowledge the children, parents, student caregivers, and staff of the
Center for Child and Family Studies at the University of California, Davis for their time and …

This study examined the relationship between word frequency and timing of communicative
gestures in children with specific language impairment (SLI) and typically-developing (TD) …

Children are known to use different types of referential gestures (eg, deictic, iconic) from a
very young age. In contrast, their use of non-referential gestures is not well established. This …

Blind adults display language‐specificity in their packaging and ordering of events in
speech. These differences affect the representation of events in co‐speech gesture …

Purpose The aim of this study was to investigate whether children with receptive-expressive
language delay (R/ELD) and expressive-only language delay (ELD) differ in their use of …