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 …

People naturally produce gestures when they speak. Little is still known about the role these
gestures play in children's language development. My research focused on the role of iconic …

Children's linguistic means for telling stories improves dramatically in terms of length,
coherence, and complexity between the ages of 4 and 10 years (eg, Berman & Slobin …

Objectives Relative to nouns, verbs are hard for children to learn (Gentner, 2006; Gleitman
et al., 2005). Nouns are often acquired earlier and in greater frequency, a finding confirmed …

Speakers of all ages spontaneously gesture as they talk. These gestures predict children's
milestones in vocabulary and sentence structure. We ask whether gesture serves a similar …

Children can understand iconic co-speech gestures that characterize entities by age 3
(Stanfield et al. in J Child Lang 40 (2): 1–10, 2014; eg,“I'm drinking”++ tilting hand in C …

Research in the field of emotion suggests that emotionally negative stories are more
memorable than positive or neutral stories (eg, Van Bergen, Wall, & Salmon, 2015) …

Two experiments investigated gesture as a form of external support for spoken language
comprehension. In both experiments, children selected blocks according to a set of …

Research suggests that children and adults' speech-gesture production correlates with
communicative genres, cognitive developmental stages and individual differences (Alamillo …

Child directed language has been characterized by exaggerated prosody which can serve
multiple functions including highlighting properties of meaning via iconicity. Iconic prosody …