Speakers sometimes express information in gestures that they do not express in speech. In
this research, we developed a system that could be used to assess the redundancy of …

Gesture is an integral part of children's communicative repertoire. However, little is known
about the neurobiology of speech and gesture integration in the developing brain. We …

Speakers sometimes convey information in their gestures that they do not convey in the
accompanying speech. The present study examined whether individual differences in the …

Background Previous research suggests that speakers are especially likely to produce
manual communicative gestures when they have relative ease in thinking about the spatial …

Adults and children spontaneously produce gestures while they speak, and such gestures
appear to support and expand on the information communicated by the verbal channel. Little …

Children, even at the one-word stage of language development, spontaneously produce
gestures along with their speech, just as adults do. Although there appears to be a brief …

Children understand gesture+ speech combinations in which a deictic gesture adds new
information to the accompanying speech by age 1; 6 (Morford & Goldin-Meadow …

Whether language/gesture correlations in early language development can be explained by
parallelism or comprehension mediation was examined. Study 1, parental report data for 95 …

Purpose To study the independence of gesture and verbal language production. The
authors assessed whether gesture can be semantically compensatory in cases of verbal …

Despite the fact that they are produced in different modalities, gesture and speech form a
unified communication system in adults. To explore whether symbolic communicative …