We examined whether children's ability to integrate speech and gesture follows the pattern
of a broader developmental shift between 3‐and 5‐year‐old children (Ramscar & Gitcho …

To understand a speaker's gestures, people may draw on kinesthetic working memory
(KWM)—a system for temporarily remembering body movements. The present study …

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 …

Adults display cross-linguistic variability in their speech in how they package and order
semantic elements of a motion event. These differences can also be found in speakers' co …

Speech and conversational hand gestures were recorded during interviews of 23 younger
(M= 21 years) and 19 older adults (M= 70 years). Three kinds of questions were used in …

In past studies, different kinds of gestures have shown different developmental trajectories,
with iconic gestures being acquired after words and other gestures before. Similarly, when …

Most research focuses function of gesture independent of its link to the speech it
accompanies and the coexpressive functions it has together with speech. This chapter …

Two experiments examined how 7-and 8-year-old children, 9-and 10-year-old children, and
adults process mismatched, task-related speech and gesture differently as a function of …

This study explored age-related changes in gesture to better understand the relationship
between gesture and word retrieval from memory. The frequency of gestures during tip-of …

This chapter examines developmental changes in speech and gesture use, in the context of
a simple naming task. In the context, fifty-one children were divided into five age groups and …