Iconic and pointing gestures are important precursors of children's early language and
cognitive development. While beat gestures seem to have positive effects on the recall of …

Recent research has shown that when preschoolers listen to a speaker who is
simultaneously making beat gestures, this favors their recall and comprehension of what …

Both speech and gesture play a vital role in human communication. Gesture itself provides
an external support to a spoken message. As a consequence, when presented together with …

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 …

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 …

We investigated the effect of age and directive words on children's ability to semantically
integrate speech and iconic gesture. The participants were 132 children aged 4 to 6 years …

Gestures are harbingers of children's linguistic steps. Further in development, evidence has
demonstrated that using iconic character-viewpoint gestures when performing more …

A longitudinal study with 45 children (Hispanic, 13%; non‐Hispanic, 87%) investigated
whether the early production of non‐referential beat and flip gestures, as opposed to …

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 …