This study compares words and gestures produced in a controlled experimental setting by
children raised in different linguistic/cultural environments to examine the robustness of …

We report on an analysis of spontaneous gesture production in 2‐year‐old children who
come from three countries (Italy, United Kingdom, Australia) and who speak two languages …

In past studies, different kinds of gestures have shown different developmental trajectories,
with iconic gestures being acquired after words and other gestures before. Similarly, when …

We studied how gesture use changes with culture, age and increased spoken language
competence. A picture-naming task was presented to British (N= 80) and Finnish (N= 41) …

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 …

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 longitudinal study investigated individual differences in the relationship between words
and representational gestures in a sample of 104 Italian children between 12 and 23 months …

Young children frequently gesture, and these gestures play a significant role in language
acquisition. Importantly, different gesture types appear in children's repertoire at different …

Previous research on language development shows that children are tuned early on to the
language-specific semantic and syntactic encoding of events in their native language. Here …

Children produce a deictic gesture for a particular object (point at dog) approximately 3
months before they produce the verbal label for that object (“dog”; Iverson & Goldin …