The combination of linguistic prosody and bodily signals help typically developing children
(TD) in accessing pragmatic meanings. We investigated the benefits of prosodic and …

While communicating, people frequently use visual articulators, such as hand gestures,
together with speech. Speech and gestures form a tightly integrated communicative system …

It is well established that observing and producing gesture by a learner can enhance
comprehension of verbal messages, including narratives. What is less well understood …

Young children use gestures to practice communicative functions that foster their receptive
and expressive linguistic skills. Studies investigating the use of gestures by late talkers are …

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 …

Moreover, our project also aims to investigate how this ability of comprehending iconic
gestures develops over time. Not children of all ages can benefit from the iconic gestures …

There is increasing evidence of a synchronous relationship between the prosodic structure
of gestures and speech (McNeill, 1992; Shattuck-Hufnagel & Ren, 2012). Both systems also …

Human conversation is marked by alternation–partners taking turns speaking and listening.
Consequently, language production happens under time pressure; speakers who cannot get …

Child-directed language can support language learning, but how? We addressed two
questions:(1) how caregivers prosodically modulated their speech as a function of word …

Iconic gestures are hand movements that depict motion and shape (eg, wiggling the index
and middle fingers to depict walking). People naturally produce iconic gestures while …