Children might combine gesture and prosody to express a pragmatic meaning such as a
request, information focus, uncertainty or politeness, before they can convey these …

Our ability to use language is multimodal and requires tight coordination between what is
expressed in speech and in gesture, such as pointing or iconic gestures that convey …

This study explores the use of deictic gestures, vocalizations and words compared to content-
loaded, or representational gestures and words in children's early one-and two-element …

Young children frequently gesture, and these gestures play a significant role in language
acquisition. Importantly, different gesture types appear in children's repertoire at different …

Gestures are harbingers of children's linguistic steps. Further in development, evidence has
demonstrated that using iconic character-viewpoint gestures when performing more …

Children's early gesturing not only precedes, but also predicts simple linguistic milestones
(eg, Iverson & Goldin-Meadow, 2005). Given the fact that oral language skills play a role in …

While recent studies have claimed that non-referential gestures (ie, gestures that do not
visually represent any semantic content in speech) are used to mark discourse-new and/or …

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 …

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 …

Speakers of French and German differ in their preferred choice of information components
for establishing contrastive and additive discourse relations. Whereas French speakers tend …