Sometimes a speaker repeats an interlocutor's gesture, at least partially. Such 'parallel
gesturing'illustrates how gestures can enter into the conversational exchange along with …

One measure of the communicative function of gestures is to test how speakers' gestures are
influenced by whether an addressee can see them or not, that is, by manipulating visibility …

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 …

Purpose When we speak, we gesture, and indeed, persons with aphasia gesture more
frequently. The reason (s) for this is still being investigated, spurring an increase in the …

This study investigated whether gesture can enhance the pragmatic comprehension of
language impaired children. Language impaired children (N= 21) and age matched typically …

Purpose The aim of this study was to determine whether children with language impairment
(LI) use gesture to compensate for their language difficulties. Method The present study …

The purpose of this chapter is to discuss the speaker-internal motivation to produce
representational gestures. Consequently, the communicative aspects of gesture will be …

Participants in face-to-face dialogue have available to them information from a variety of
modalities that can help them to understand what is being communicated by a speaker …

Background: Two main conflicting positions exist concerning the relationship of gesture and
speech. The first claims that gesture and speech constitute a single bimodal production …

People spontaneously produce gestures during speaking and thinking. The authors focus
here on gestures that depict or indicate information related to the contents of concurrent …