When children learn language, they apply their language-learning skills to the linguistic
input they receive. But what happens if children are not exposed to input from a conventional …

Recent interest in gesture has led to an understanding of the development of gesture and
speech in typically developing young children. Research suggests that initially gesture and …

We report on a study investigating 3–5‐year‐old children's use of gesture to resolve lexical
ambiguity. Children were told three short stories that contained two homonym senses; for …

The relationship between speech and gestural proficiency was investigated longitudinally
(from 2 years to 3 years 6 months, at 6-month intervals) in 5 French–English bilingual boys …

Previous studies investigating the organization of articulatory gestures present conflicting
accounts of age-related differences in the execution of the articulatory gestures themselves …

Gesture and language development are strongly connected to each other. Two types of
gestures in particular are analyzed regarding their role for language acquisition: pointing …

One of the conceptualisations of early speech is that the earliest utterances are situational,
having the characteristics of a conditional response (or a sensori-motor action schema) …

Asking children to gesture while being taught a concept facilitates their learning. Here, we
investigated whether children benefitted equally from producing gestures that reflected …

We present a microgenetic analysis of the gestures that children produce as they talk about
a balance task. Children gesture spontaneously on this task and here their hand gestures …

The spontaneous development of symbolic gestures in a normal infant of hearing parents is
described. From 12.5 to 17.5 months of age, 13 gestures depicting objects, events, and …