We investigated the effect of age and directive words on children's ability to semantically
integrate speech and iconic gesture. The participants were 132 children aged 4 to 6 years …

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

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 …

Although the positive effects of iconic gestures on word recall and comprehension by
children have been clearly established, less is known about the benefits of beat gestures …

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 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 …

Gestures and speech are tightly linked. Since McNeill (1992) argued that gesture and
speech form a single integrated system, research has shown that gestures and speech …

Past research has shown that while speaking children before 3-year-old often use gesture to
supplement speech while not using gesture as an integrated system with speech, and that …