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 …

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 …

Despite the fact that they are produced in different modalities, gesture and speech form a
unified communication system in adults. To explore whether symbolic communicative …

• 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 …

This chapter traces the burgeoning field of developmental gesture studies and examines the
emergence of gestures as visible utterances, adult responses to children's gestures, and the …

The gesture systems developed by 10 deaf children, each incapable of acquiring a
conventional spoken language naturally and not exposed to a conventional manual …

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 …

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 …