• 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 …

Children, even at the one-word stage of language development, spontaneously produce
gestures along with their speech, just as adults do. Although there appears to be a brief …

Gesture Studies aims to publish book-length publications on all aspects of gesture. These
include, for instance, the relationship between gesture and speech; the role gesture may …

Gesture Studies aims to publish book-length publications on all aspects of gesture. ese
include, for instance, the relationship between gesture and speech; the role gesture may …

This landmark study examines the role of gestures in relation to speech and thought.
Leading scholars, including psychologists, linguists and anthropologists, offer state-of-the …

Describes a 14-year program of research, the focus of which was the capacity of normal
infants to incorporate gestural symbols into their earliest expressive vocabularies. Explores …

To gain a full understanding of the steps children follow in acquiring language, researchers
must pay attention to their hands as well as their mouths–that is, to gesture. We first define …

Children who produce one word at a time often use gesture to supplement their speech,
turning a single word into an utterance that conveys a sentence-like meaning ('eat'+ point at …

The present paper focuses on early stages of development exploring the emergence of the
gesture language system in infancy and its evolution toward the adult system. Old and …

Human beings gesture every day while speaking: they move their hands, their heads, their
arms; their whole body is involved in communication. But how does it work? How do we …