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) …

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 thesis concerns the nature of the gestures performed by five Swedish children. The
children are followed from 18 to 30 months of age: an age range which is characterized by a …

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 …

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 …

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 growing evidence that gesture plays an important role in language, cognitive and
communicative development. Children use gestures prior to words to communicate during …

Young children communicate via gesture before they communicate through speech;
research has documented strong associations between early gesture use and later …

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 …