People move their hands as they talk–they gesture. Gesturing is a robust phenomenon,
found across cultures, ages, and tasks. Gesture is even found in individuals blind from birth …

Pre-proof of a chapter scheduled to appear in June 2021 as: Hassemer, J., & Evola, V. (2021).
Cognitive Linguistics and Gest Page 1 1 Pre-proof of a chapter scheduled to appear in June …

" Bringing together a team of leading scholars in the field, this Handbook provides a full
overview of gesture studies, combining historical overviews as well as current, concise …

In the last decades, an increasing number of scholars have shown the relevant role played
by gesture in the psychological-cognitive processing of content and in the construction of …

As children learn they use their speech to express words and their hands to gesture. This
study investigates the interplay between real-time gestures and speech as children construct …

Do speakers intend their gestures to communicate? Central as this question is to the study of
gesture, researchers cannot seem to agree on the answer. According to one common …

Purpose The purpose of the study was to investigate the role that cospeech gestures play in
lexical production in preschool-age children with expressive specific language impairment …

A significant body of evidence from cross-linguistic and developmental studies converges to
suggest that co-speech iconic gesture mirrors language. This paper aims to identify whether …

Production and comprehension of gesture emerge early and are key to subsequent
language development in typical development. Compared to typically developing (TD) …

Representational gestures are hand and arm movements that are related to the semantic
content of co-occurring speech. In this review, we present evidence that such movements …