We examined whether children's ability to integrate speech and gesture follows the pattern
of a broader developmental shift between 3‐and 5‐year‐old children (Ramscar & Gitcho …

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

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 …

Children perceive iconic gestures, along with speech they hear. Previous studies have
shown that children integrate information from both modalities. Yet it is not known whether …

This study investigated whether gesture can enhance the pragmatic comprehension of
language impaired children. Language impaired children (N= 21) and age matched typically …

This study examined how well 5-, 6-, 10-year-olds and adults integrated information from
spoken discourse with cohesive use of space in gesture, in comprehension. In Experiment 1 …

Abstract We examined 4-and 9-year-old′ s referential comprehension when given pointing
gestures and spoken labels, in two types of contextually ambiguous situations. In one …

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 …

Two experiments examined how 7-and 8-year-old children, 9-and 10-year-old children, and
adults process mismatched, task-related speech and gesture differently as a function of …

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 …