Abstract Language and action systems are highly interlinked. A critical piece of evidence is
that speech and its accompanying gestures are tightly synchronized. Five experiments were …

Researchers have theorised that speech and gesture are integrated in communication. We
ask whether this integrated relationship is indexed by a unique temporal link between …

The temporal relationship between the onset of gesture and speech was analysed in two
experiments using dual-task paradigms. In single-task conditions, the participants …

Humans speak and produce symbolic gestures. Do these two forms of communication
interact, and how? First, we tested whether the two communication signals influenced each …

The four articles that appear in this issue deal with the question of whether, and how,
recipiedts of the utterances of others are affected in their understanding by the gestures that …

The close relationship of speech and gestures becomes conspicuously obvious in the
temporal coordination of both modalities. In this paper we investigate in how far temporal …

Hand movements and speech are obviously closely related, as anyone who has ever
watched another person alone in a telephone box will know. Here, in the absence of any …

The temporal alignment of speech and gesture is widely acknowledged as primary evidence
of the integration of spoken language and gesture systems. Yet there is a disconnect …

Gestures that spontaneously accompany speech convey information coordinated with the
concurrent speech. There has been considerable theoretical disagreement about the …

The hand gestures that accompany speech have been the subject of a good deal of
attention from those interested in the psycholinguistics of speaking. McNeill (1979, 1985) …