Gestures are commonly used together with spoken language in human communication. One
major limitation of gesture investigations in the existing literature lies in the fact that the …

Gesture is integral to human language. Its function within human communication is as much
goal-directed, and subsequently as communicative, as is speech. Indeed, gesture and …

Gestures and their concurrent words are often said to be meaningfully related and co-
expressive. Research has shown that gestures and words are each particularly suited to …

Speakers sometimes express information in gestures that they do not express in speech. In
this research, we developed a system that could be used to assess the redundancy of …

The semantic specificity of gesture was assessed by the ability of untrained participants to
recognize the meaning of ideational gestures in a forced-choice paradigm. Untrained …

Most research focuses function of gesture independent of its link to the speech it
accompanies and the coexpressive functions it has together with speech. This chapter …

The reasons for documenting gestures and suggestions for how to go about it, are
enumerated in this article. Using gestures, the hand and arm movements speakers make …

Purpose To study the independence of gesture and verbal language production. The
authors assessed whether gesture can be semantically compensatory in cases of verbal …

The repertoire and timing of gestures accompanying speech were compared in children with
specific language impairment (SLI), aged 5—10 years, in typically developing peers (CA) …

The study of gesture has a long history (Kendon, 1982). The earliest books devoted
exclusively to it appeared in the 17th century (eg, Bulwer 1644). In the 18th century …