These findings suggest that individuals might use more representational gestures when they
are disfluent if they have enough competency to detect their mistakes, which suggests a …

Language is multimodal. When individuals speak, they spontaneously produce gestures.
The role of gesture production in human cognition has been hotly debated in the literature …

People are more disfluent in their second language (L2) than their first language (L1).
Gesturing facilitates cognitive processes, including speech production. This study …

Age‐related changes are observed in the speech and gestures of neurotypical individuals.
Older adults are more disfluent in speech and use fewer representational gestures (eg …

Previous studies investigating the timing relationship demonstrate that, while relatively
stable, there is still variability in the latencies between representational gestures and LAs …

Most research focuses function of gesture independent of its link to the speech it
accompanies and the coexpressive functions it has together with speech. This chapter …

These findings suggest that bilinguals might use representational gestures to ease their
speech production process, particularly in their second language. Our results are in line with …

When, how, and why do people gesture? The Cambridge Handbook of Gesture Studies
offers many answers to this question from diverse theoretical and methodological …

What are the processes that underlie speech and gesture in communication? Does this link
develop in the language system, or is it the result of more general cognitive processes? How …

Why do we gesture when we speak? The Cognitive Psychology of Speech-Related Gesture
offers answers to this question while introducing readers to the huge interdisciplinary field of …