Purpose When we speak, we gesture, and indeed, persons with aphasia gesture more
frequently. The reason (s) for this is still being investigated, spurring an increase in the …

The purpose of this chapter is to discuss the speaker-internal motivation to produce
representational gestures. Consequently, the communicative aspects of gesture will be …

This study investigated whether gesture can enhance the pragmatic comprehension of
language impaired children. Language impaired children (N= 21) and age matched typically …

Purpose The aim of this study was to determine whether children with language impairment
(LI) use gesture to compensate for their language difficulties. Method The present study …

Participants in face-to-face dialogue have available to them information from a variety of
modalities that can help them to understand what is being communicated by a speaker …

People spontaneously produce gestures during speaking and thinking. The authors focus
here on gestures that depict or indicate information related to the contents of concurrent …

Background: Two main conflicting positions exist concerning the relationship of gesture and
speech. The first claims that gesture and speech constitute a single bimodal production …

Human face-to-face communication is multimodal: it comprises speech as well as visual
cues, such as articulatory and limb gestures. In the current study, we assess how iconic …

It seems self-evident that, if we want to obtain or evaluate evidence about the communicative
value of conversational gestures, we will first have to clarify what we mean by gesture and …

EEG was recorded as adults watched short segments of spontaneous discourse in which the
speaker's gestures and utterances contained complementary information. Videos were …