One traditional view of how speech and gesture interact in talk is that gestures represent
information, which is largely redundant with respect to the information contained in the …

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 …

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 …

David McNeill has claimed that,“[u] tterances possess two sides, only one of which is
speech; the other is imagery, actional and visuo-spatial.” One implication of this claim is that …

Gesture in multimodal researches has been studied widely recently, and how gesture
interacts with speech in communication is the focus in most researches. Some hypotheses …

In current discussions of gesture a dominant orientation is psychological in the sense that
gestures, at least those considered spontaneous accompaniments to speaking and …

Speech-accompanying spontaneous gestures have attracted the attention of psycholinguists
and cognitive psychologists in recent years. Theorists assert that spontaneous gestures …

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 …

This dissertation examines the capacity of interactive gesture to contribute to discourse
structure independent of accompanying speech. The close relationship between gesture …

Why an iconic gesture takes its particular form is a largely open question, given the
variations one finds across both situations and speakers. We present results of an empirical …