… poorer gesture production ability than peers. We also hypothesize that when attempting to
comprehend a sentence in which both gesture and speech cues are needed, the children with …

… current study is to explore gesture comprehension, as well as gesture production, in young
… child's ability to integrate information across gesture and speech. For a population of children …

… we used the Words and Gestures (WG) form of the MB-CDI for children aged 8–18 months,
which includes a checklist of words for both comprehension and production and a checklist of …

… The means and standard deviations of the gestures produced by the 3 groups of children
are reported in Table 2. The data analysis showed that the children’s gesture production …

… production of gestures, and thus, all gestures produced were natural. For the purposes of the
current experiment, typical gestures were defined as those produced … produced gestures by …

… or not the gestures produced along with speech contribute to the comprehension of spoken
… of gestures that speakers routinely produce along with speech, namely, representational …

… whether the production of gesture indeed benefits comprehension. … gesture production
is found across studies, in addition to determining whether producing and observing gestures …

… a bidirectional relationship between gesture production and word comprehension, this is …
model of word comprehension mediating the relationship between infants’ gestures and their …

… The quality of representational gestures produced by children with specific … children, so too
does their gesture performance. Children with SLI perform like young motor-matched children …

… referential comprehension when given pointing gestures and … In one situation, speech/gesture
discordance was produced in … , and ambiguity was produced by factorially combining …