This study investigated whether gesture can enhance the pragmatic comprehension of
language impaired children. Language impaired children (N= 21) and age matched typically …

Through providing an external support to speech, gesture observation may benefit a
student's learning in a variety of areas, including narrative comprehension. Across two …

A predominant focus since the 1970s has been on the contribution of infant pointing to
language development. In recent years, researchers have revisited the idea of ostensive …

Gestures are meaningful hand movements that are often produced with speech. Gestures
can help individuals comprehend a spoken message, but this is influenced by factors like …

This study examined the impacts of co-speech iconic gestures (CS-IG) on fast-mapping in
typically developing (TD) children. Twenty-three TD children 5-8 years of age were exposed …

Hand gestures have been found to provide both semantic information and cognitive
facilitative effects in language tasks. These benefits, however, have typically been linked to …

Previous research has shown that gestures are beneficial for language learning. This
doctoral thesis centers on the effects of beat gestures–ie, hand and arm gestures that are …

Researchers have shown that in human communication, gestures and speech are tightly
integrated at the phonological (ie, temporal), and semanticopragmatic levels (eg, McNeill …

The movements we produce or observe others produce can help us learn. Two forms of
movement that are commonplace in our daily lives are actions, hand movements that directly …

While recent studies have claimed that non-referential gestures (ie, gestures that do not
visually represent any semantic content in speech) are used to mark discourse-new and/or …