There is increasing agreement that gestures are interesting, even crucial components of
language. By studying them in conjunction with speech (not in isolation), we gain new …

Our work is concerned with the gestures that occur when people speak, and the possible
role of cerebral laterality in coordinating gestures with speech. Gesture is not language, but …

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 …

It seems self-evident that, if we want to obtain or evaluate evidence about the communicative
value of conversational gestures, we will first have to clarify what we mean by gesture and …

Using as data videotapes of archaeologists excavating a prehistoric village this chapter
investigate gestures that cannot be defined completely within the skin of the actor (s), but …

Humans communicate using language, but they also communicate using gesture–
spontaneous movements of the hands and body that universally accompany speech …

Languages differ in how they organize events, particularly in the types of semantic elements
they express and the arrangement of those elements within a sentence. Here we ask …

Humans speak and produce symbolic gestures. Do these two forms of communication
interact, and how? First, we tested whether the two communication signals influenced each …

Despite various theories about the exact origin of gestures in speech production,
researchers generally accept that gesture and speech constitute the product of a single unit …

What do we study when we study language? Our theories of language, and particularly our
theories of the cognitive and neural underpinnings of language, have developed primarily …