Sometimes a speaker repeats an interlocutor's gesture, at least partially. Such 'parallel
gesturing'illustrates how gestures can enter into the conversational exchange along with …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Children gesture before they begin to speak and continue gesturing throughout the
language learning process. This chapter focuses on those gestures, and explores the role …

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

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 …

The types of gesture+ speech combinations children produce during the early stages of
language development change over time. This change, in turn, predicts the onset of two …

Research on the co-development of gestures and speech mainly focuses on children in
early phases of language acquisition. This study investigates how children in later …

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 …