Research over the past four decades has built a convincing case that co‐speech hand
gestures play a powerful role in human cognition. However, this recent focus on the …

It is often assumed that a main function of gestures is to compensate for expressive
difficulties. This predicts that gestures should mainly occur with disfluent speech. However …

It goes without saying that the descriptively oriented gesture research of Kendon (2004),
McNeill (1992, 2005) and followers greatly enhanced our understanding of the speech …

This landmark study examines the role of gestures in relation to speech and thought.
Leading scholars, including psychologists, linguists and anthropologists, offer state-of-the …

Purpose: This study aims to analyze the development of gesture–speech temporal
alignment patterns in children's narrative speech from a longitudinal perspective and …

The four articles that appear in this issue deal with the question of whether, and how,
recipiedts of the utterances of others are affected in their understanding by the gestures that …

As the field of linguistics shifts toward a more embodied, multimodal understanding of
language, we are given an opportunity to reconsider fundamental notions of what linguistic …

Highlights Does phonological similarity affect gesture production in the absence of speech?
Participants produced gestures from pictures with no words presented or spoken. Same …

Speaking and gesturing are tightly coupled systems. For example, infants at the one-word
stage of language development already produce speech and gesture in a coordinated way …

Gestures facilitate speech production by helping speakers reduce cognitive load. Studies on
gesture-speech interaction mostly examined the effect of representational gestures on …