Past research has shown that while speaking children before 3-year-old often use gesture to
supplement speech while not using gesture as an integrated system with speech, and that …

Children who produce one word at a time often use gesture to supplement their speech,
turning a single word into an utterance that conveys a sentence-like meaning ('eat'+ point at …

The gestures children produce predict the early stages of spoken language development.
Here we ask whether gesture is a global predictor of language learning, or whether …

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 …

At the one-word stage children use gesture to supplement their speech ('eat'+ point at
cookie), and the onset of such supplementary gesture-speech combinations predicts the …

Children use gesture to refer to objects before they produce labels for these objects and
gesture–speech combinations to convey semantic relations between objects before …

Children express their burgeoning abilities in referential communication initially in gesture.
Parents frequently provide verbal labels for the referents children express only in gesture but …

Children understand gesture+ speech combinations in which a deictic gesture adds new
information to the accompanying speech by age 1; 6 (Morford & Goldin-Meadow …

The types of gesture+ speech combinations children produce during the early stages of
language development change over time. This change, in turn, predicts the onset of two …

Italian children are immersed in a gesture-rich culture. Given the large gesture repertoire of
Italian adults, young Italian children might be expected to develop a larger inventory of …