The aim of this paper is to compare speech and co-speech gestures observed during a
narrative retelling task in five-and ten-year-old children from three different linguistic groups …

As children's language abilities develop, so may their use of co-speech gesture. We tested
this hypothesis by studying oral narratives produced by French children and adults. One …

This article addresses the effect of communicative activity on the use of language and
gesture by school-age children. The present study examined oral narratives and …

This study addresses two questions. The first question is about how children integrate
linguistic, prosodic and kinesic resources into organised discourse behaviour such as oral …

Children as young as 4–5 years can produce descriptive narratives but have been found to
have difficulties to talk about causal and mind-oriented aspects of the story, such as the …

This was a cross-sectional study of storytelling development in French–English bilinguals
between four and 10 years in both languages. Measures of both spoken and gestural use …

Five spontaneous narratives from 10 12-year-olds conversations are analysed to show how
they contribute to the children s ongoing construction of knowledge and identity. A Labovian …

In recent years we've come to understand how fully even young speakers acquire more than
grammar, learning, in addition, how language is used variously across different registers …

In this study we investigate the re-introduction of referents in the Frog stories told by Italian
children aged 4–10 (N= 100). We found that for every age group full nouns are the most …

Speakers of all ages spontaneously gesture as they talk. These gestures predict children's
milestones in vocabulary and sentence structure. We ask whether gesture serves a similar …