… at what age young children can create novel iconic gestures. … light on children’s early skill
with iconic gestures, looking at … gestures does not seem to be transparent for young children. …

… An iconic gesture can be defined as a gesture that depicts in its form and manner of … ,
the iconic gestures of young children differ in a number of ways from the gestures of adults. …

… incidence of iconic gestures in children’s immediate environment is very scarce; parents of
young children rarely use iconic gestures when communicating with their young children, and …

… Thus, we suggest that iconic gestures may offer young children a technique for filling in lexical
gaps in their action vocabularies. Children take advantage of this technique, but only after …

… In this study, we focus on iconic co-speech gestures depicting motion events in English. …
young children understand gestures conveying motion events as early as they do so for gestures …

… iconic gestures explicitly taught to children, we know much less about the iconic gestures that
children … Previous work suggests that the incidence of spontaneous iconic gestures is rare, …

… 4-year-old human children (N = 24) to comprehend novel iconic gestures. Participants learned
to … Children used the iconic gestures (more than arbitrary gestures) to locate the reward, …

… In our studies, 3-year-olds, but not younger children and great apes, learned from iconic
gestures. … Yet our findings suggest that younger children might have difficulties translating a …

… with iconic gestures and beat gestures enhances memory recall in adults. In Experiment 2,
we look at whether encoding words with gestures facilitates memory recall in young children. …

… task for young children. Our study explores how young children interpret iconic gesture and
… In Study 1, 2- and 3-year-old children were shown iconic gestures that illustrated how to …