Purpose: Though the frequency of gesture use by infants has been related to the
development of different language abilities in the initial stages of language acquisition, less …

Purpose: This study aims to analyze the development of gesture–speech temporal
alignment patterns in children's narrative speech from a longitudinal perspective and …

This was a cross-sectional study of storytelling development in French–English bilinguals
between four and 10 years in both languages. Measures of both spoken and gestural use …

The aim of the present study was to examine the use of gestures in the narrative productions
of preschool children. Both the developmental patterns of gestures and verbal production …

Children's early gesturing not only precedes, but also predicts simple linguistic milestones
(eg, Iverson & Goldin-Meadow, 2005). Given the fact that oral language skills play a role in …

Children from 5 to 6 years of age have been shown to start producing non-referential beat
gestures in narrative speech. However, it still remains unclear how the use of these non …

Gestures are harbingers of children's linguistic steps. Further in development, evidence has
demonstrated that using iconic character-viewpoint gestures when performing more …

Els estudis sobre desenvolupament del llenguatge típicament s' han centrat en l'anàlisi de la
parla. Tanmateix, hi ha altres elements comunicatius que són una peça fonamental en la …

The aim of this paper is to compare speech and co-speech gestures observed during a
narrative retelling task in five-and ten-year-old children from three different linguistic groups …

Research suggests that children and adults' speech-gesture production correlates with
communicative genres, cognitive developmental stages and individual differences (Alamillo …