Age‐related changes are observed in the speech and gestures of neurotypical individuals.
Older adults are more disfluent in speech and use fewer representational gestures (eg …

Ageing has effects both on language and gestural communication skills. Although gesture
use is similar between younger and older adults, the use of representational gestures (eg …

There is contradictory evidence on whether speech production gets impaired or enhanced
when people are restrained from gesturing. There is also very little research on how this …

Gestures might serve communicative functions by supplementing spoken expressions or
restorative functions by facilitating speech production. Also, speakers with speech deficits …

Older adults have been observed to use more nonnormative, or atypical, words than
younger adults in connected speech. We examined whether aging-related losses in word …

This study investigated the impact of age on iconic gesture and speech integration. The
performance of a group of older adults (60–76 years) and a group of younger adults (22–30 …

Speech disfluencies such as repeated words and pauses provide information about the
cognitive systems underlying speech production. Understanding whether older age leads to …

Age‐related increases of speaking rate are not fully understood, but have been attributed to
gains in biologic factors and learned skills that support speech production. This study …

The cognitive architecture and function of co-speech gesture has been the subject of a large
body of research. We investigate two main questions in this field, namely, whether language …

It is often assumed that a main function of gestures is to compensate for expressive
difficulties. This predicts that gestures should mainly occur with disfluent speech. However …