Gestures are now viewed as an integral part of spoken language. But little attention has
been paid to the recipients' cognitive processes of integrating both gesture and speech. How …

Cognitive linguists are increasingly extending their paradigm to include the study of
gestures. The bottom‐up, usage‐based approach in cognitive linguistics has advanced the …

In face-to-face conversation, communicators orchestrate multimodal contributions that
meaningfully combine the linguistic resources of spoken language and the visuo-spatial …

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

The current study uses principles from Cognitive Grammar to better account for the symbolic
integration of gesture and speech. Drawing on data collected from language use, we …

In this paper I argue against the common assumption in recent literature that content-bearing
gestures co-occurring with speech project in a single uniform way determined by their co …

Cognitive linguistics is purported to be a usage-based approach, yet only recently has
research in some of its subfields turned to spontaneous spoken (versus written) language …

Abstract Language and perception are two central cognitive systems. Until relatively
recently, however, the interaction between them has been examined only partially and not …

Theories suggest that representational gestures depicting properties of referents in
accompanying speech could facilitate language production and comprehension. In order to …

Gesture is typically produced with speech, forming a fully integrated system with that speech.
However, under unusual circumstances, gesture can be produced completely on its own …