Adults and children spontaneously produce gestures while they speak, and such gestures
appear to support and expand on the information communicated by the verbal channel. Little …

The purpose of this chapter is to discuss the speaker-internal motivation to produce
representational gestures. Consequently, the communicative aspects of gesture will be …

There is increasing agreement that gestures are interesting, even crucial components of
language. By studying them in conjunction with speech (not in isolation), we gain new …

Speakers sometimes express information in gestures that they do not express in speech. In
this research, we developed a system that could be used to assess the redundancy of …

Why do people gesture while speaking? What role does this activity play in verbal
exchanges? Which kind of relationship does it exhibit between the verbal and the gestural …

The gestures that spontaneously occur in communicative contexts have been shown to offer
insight into a child's thoughts. The information gesture conveys about what is on a child's …

Emmorey, K., & Reilly, J.(Eds.).(1995). Language, gesture, and space. Hillsdale, NJ:
Erlbaurn.-. Goldin-Meadow, S., McNeill, D, & Singleton, J.(1996), Silence is lib-erating …

Speech-accompanying spontaneous gestures have attracted the attention of psycholinguists
and cognitive psychologists in recent years. Theorists assert that spontaneous gestures …

People spontaneously produce gestures during speaking and thinking. The authors focus
here on gestures that depict or indicate information related to the contents of concurrent …

Two experiments investigated gesture as a form of external support for spoken language
comprehension. In both experiments, children selected blocks according to a set of …