… information and that beat gestures highlight pragmatic functions and discourse structure,
the … with beat gestures on the children’s subsequent ability to produce a narrative discourse. …

… encouraging children to produce beat gestures—as opposed to … to produce beats can boost
their narrative performance. A … storytellers associated beat gestures with discourse markers …

… encouraging the production of beat gestures through a brief training … discourse performance
in terms of narrative structure and fluency scores, compared to just observing beat gestures. …

… information and that beat gestures highlight pragmatic functions and discourse structure,
the … with beat gestures on the children’s subsequent ability to produce a narrative discourse. …

… beat gestures (rhythmic hand/arm movements produced together with prominent prosody).
This study investigated (a) whether beat gestures … in a child-directed discourse (Experiment 1) …

… beat gesture observation on the acquisition of native-like speech patterns in English by
examining the effect of a brief training with or without beat gestures … participants’ performance on …

… , beats may be used to signal a shift in the discourse mode, … Other beat gestures, particularly
those described as being … The final beat aligns with “performance”, which is also part of the …

… discourses in which beat gesture was never present. We hypothesized that when the talker
never uses beat gesture, … accenting even in the absence of gesture. Thus, we anticipated that …

… while the presence or absence of beat gestures in discourse does not affect either recall or
… ultimately led to an exaggerated performance in terms of the number of non-referential beat …

… verbal performance. More proficient speakers, such as ITAs, can use emphatic and rhythmic
… The current study focused on beat gestures, which generally have an identifiable apex, and …