Adults display cross-linguistic variability in their speech in how they package and order
semantic elements of a motion event. These differences can also be found in speakers' co …

I would like to thank my dissertation advisor, David McNeill, for his unwavering support
throughout the course of this project and the pilot studies that went into it, and for providing …

Gestures are an integral part of every-day human communication and serve many different
functions (eg they aid lexical retrieval, the learning of a second language or can be used as …

Speakers around the globe gesture when they talk, and young children are no exception. In
fact, children's first foray into communication tends to be through their hands rather than their …

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 …

Representational gestures are co-speech gestures that carry semantic content related to the
content of speech. Previous studies focusing on adult-adult conversation have investigated …

This chapter focuses on functional and formal aspects found in gesture studies highlighting
their relationship with cognitive linguistics. Our analysis shows the need for research on …

Speakers use spontaneous hand gestures as they speak and think. These gestures serve
many functions for speakers who produce them as well as for listeners who observe them …

People gesture when they speak. For the past 20 years, researchers have investigated the
behavioral roles that these co-speech gestures play in language processing. This special …

This dissertation examines the capacity of interactive gesture to contribute to discourse
structure independent of accompanying speech. The close relationship between gesture …