This study compares words and gestures produced in a controlled experimental setting by
children raised in different linguistic/cultural environments to examine the robustness of …

This chapter reviews the literature on cross-cultural variation of gestures. It identifies four
factors governing the variation: the culture-specific convention for form-meaning …

A significant body of evidence from cross-linguistic and developmental studies converges to
suggest that co-speech iconic gesture mirrors language. This paper aims to identify whether …

Gestures might serve communicative functions by supplementing spoken expressions or
restorative functions by facilitating speech production. Also, speakers with speech deficits …

Humans gesture even when their gestures can serve no communicative function (eg, when
the listener cannot see them). This study explores the intrapersonal function of gestures, and …

English and Italian encoders were asked to communicate two‐dimensional shapes to
decoders of their own culture, with and without the use of hand gestures, for materials of …

Gestures and speech parallel or complement each other semantically and pragmatically.
Previous studies have postulated a similarly close correlation between intonation and …

How language began is one of the oldest questions in science, but theories remain
speculative due to a lack of direct evidence. Here, we report two experiments that generate …

Abstract The fields of Cognitive Linguistics and gesture studies have begun to find each
other of great interest in recent years. The cross-recognition is making for a healthy …

An overview on what is currently known about gestures and speech from a psychological
perspective. Spontaneous co-verbal gestures offer insights into imagistic and dynamic forms …