Through constant exposure to adult input in interaction, children's language gradually
develops into rich linguistic constructions containing multiple cross-modal elements subtly …

Children who produce one word at a time often use gesture to supplement their speech,
turning a single word into an utterance that conveys a sentence-like meaning ('eat'+ point at …

There is growing evidence that gesture plays an important role in language, cognitive and
communicative development. Children use gestures prior to words to communicate during …

To gain a full understanding of the steps children follow in acquiring language, researchers
must pay attention to their hands as well as their mouths–that is, to gesture. We first define …

Children gesture before they begin to speak and continue gesturing throughout the
language learning process. This chapter focuses on those gestures, and explores the role …

This chapter traces the burgeoning field of developmental gesture studies and examines the
emergence of gestures as visible utterances, adult responses to children's gestures, and the …

Gestures are prevalent in communication and tightly linked to language and speech. As
such they can shed important light on issues of language development across the lifespan …

Children begin to gesture long before talking. Gestures, such as pointing or waving
goodbye, constitute the principal means of interacting conventionally with others before the …

This landmark study examines the role of gestures in relation to speech and thought.
Leading scholars, including psychologists, linguists and anthropologists, offer state-of-the …

Human beings gesture every day while speaking: they move their hands, their heads, their
arms; their whole body is involved in communication. But how does it work? How do we …