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 …

This study explores the role that gesture plays in the earliest stages of language learning.
We describe how one-word speakers use gesture in combination with speech in their …

Speech and gesture are two vital components of communication. Gesture itself provides an
external support to speech, potentially promoting comprehension of a spoken message. The …

Children understand gesture+ speech combinations in which a deictic gesture adds new
information to the accompanying speech by age 1; 6 (Morford & Goldin-Meadow …

In development, children often use gesture to communicate before they use words. The
question is whether these gestures merely precede language development or are …

Observing gesture can have a beneficial effect on learning, however research into the role of
gesture in preschoolers' narrative comprehension is scarce. The present study compared …

We propose a framework for explaining difference in difficulty of various pragmatic
phenomena. In particular, we investigate the ability to comprehend direct, indirect, deceitful …

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 …

Whether language/gesture correlations in early language development can be explained by
parallelism or comprehension mediation was examined. Study 1, parental report data for 95 …

At what point in the process of speech production is gesture involved? According to the
Lexical Retrieval Hypothesis, gesture is involved in generating the surface forms of …