At the one-word stage children use gesture to supplement their speech ('eat'+ point at
cookie), and the onset of such supplementary gesture-speech combinations predicts the …

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 …

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

The gestures children produce predict the early stages of spoken language development.
Here we ask whether gesture is a global predictor of language learning, or whether …

Children produce their first gestures before their first words, and their first gesture+ word
sentences before their first word+ word sentences. These gestural accomplishments have …

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

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 …

There is a growing awareness that language and gesture are deeply intertwined in the
spontaneous expression of adults. Although some research suggests that children use …

This chapter examines developmental changes in speech and gesture use, in the context of
a simple naming task. In the context, fifty-one children were divided into five age groups and …

This study explores the communicative use of the gestural and vocal modalities by normally
developing Italian children during the transition from one-to two-word speech. We analysed …