… Employing the AphasiaBank database, we coded iconic gestures in 75 speakers with
aphasia during two spoken discourse tasks: a procedural narrative, which involved participants …

… pulsation of speech” and “reveal the speaker’s conception of the narrative … language pf
procedural discourse drove the production of semantically rich, and particularly iconic gestures. …

… In contrast, 29.5% and 25.0% of iconic gestures were used by the … iconic gestures found in
our control speakers were used for the same purpose. Although the speakers in both aphasic …

… Main results for task effects revealed that PWA and CP used more iconic gestures and …
that a speaker can refer to a wide range of different aspects of content by using iconic gestures. …

… of gesture that benefit neurotypical speakers might extend to … with aphasia produce
comparatively fewer iconic gestures during a picture sequence description task than a procedural …

… by specific gesture types: Pointing, Emblems and Iconic gesture. … , similarly to gesture
production in healthy speakers (Kita & … the language impairment in PWA information in speech …

… aphasia (PWA) use gesture as an accompaniment to speech, … produced significantly more
gestures in procedural than in … Next to language skills, such as speech fluency and lexical …

… the gesture system can remain functional even when language … relied on iconic gestures to
compensate for their language … For one, speakers produce more iconic co-speech gestures …

… speaker, coded 10% of the videos for identifying gestures, … gestures may facilitate speech,
both in aphasic and healthy … What can iconic gestures tell us about the language system? …

… of procedural speech, …), or on qualitative studies of gesture … speakers but we note that
the total number of gestures … this paper, the use of iconic gestures to compensate for lacking …