Background Speakers with aphasia gesture, but the extent to which these gestures improve
their communication success is unclear. Aim The primary aim is to assess if gesture …

When people talk, they gesture. Gesture is a fundamental component of language that
contributes meaningful and unique information to a spoken message and reflects the …

Background: The background to this study is that aphasiologists have increasingly started to
pay attention not only to the speech that people with aphasia produce, but also to their …

Background: Previous research has found that people with aphasia produce more
spontaneous iconic gesture than control participants, especially during word-finding …

Purpose: Adults with aphasia gesture more than adults without aphasia. However, less is
known about the role of gesture in different discourse contexts for individuals with different …

Background: Speech and language therapists rarely analyse iconic gesture when assessing
a client with aphasia, despite a growing body of research suggesting that language and …

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

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 …

Purpose Coverbal gesture use, which is affected by the presence and degree of aphasia,
can be culturally specific. The purpose of this study was to compare gesture use among …

Conversation is important in everyday life and this importance is not diminished in aphasia.
Context parameters such as topic and partner are known to influence the linguistic content of …