Two experiments investigated gesture as a form of external support for spoken language
comprehension. In both experiments, children selected blocks according to a set of …

Children are known to use different types of referential gestures (eg, deictic, iconic) from a
very young age. In contrast, their use of non-referential gestures is not well established. This …

The way adults express manner and path components of a motion event varies across
typologically different languages both in speech and cospeech gestures, showing that …

Adults and children spontaneously produce gestures while they speak, and such gestures
appear to support and expand on the information communicated by the verbal channel. Little …

This study was designed to determine if certain types of gesture-speech combinations act as
transitional phenomena preceding production of 2-word utterances. Ten normally …

Pointing gestures of verbally advanced 2-year-olds were contrasted with those of less
advanced peers, in order to examine the relationships of gesture to language during the …

Co-speech gestures have a close semantic relationship to speech in adult conversation. In
typically developing children co-speech gestures which give additional information to …

• What does the enrichment of language with imagery show us of language and thought? In
recent years the rise of sign language as a topic of interest in psychology and linguistics has …