Based on the linguistic analysis of game explanations and retellings, the paper's goal is to
investigate the relation of preschool children's situated discourse competence and iconic …

While previous research on language development has highlighted the facilitating role of
gesture (mainly deictic gesture) in children's early access to meaning, little is known about …

This chapter presents an overview of the gesture forms that young children use to convey
negation and opposite stance after they start using speech extensively. It adopts a …

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 …

For the beginning language learner, communicative input is not based on linguistic codes
alone. This study investigated two extralinguistic factors which are important for infants' …

This article addresses the effect of communicative activity on the use of language and
gesture by school-age children. The present study examined oral narratives and …

Speakers produce both referential gestures, which depict properties of a referent, and non-
referential gestures, which lack semantic content. While a large number of studies have …

Speakers, including children at the early stages of language learning, rely on both gesture
and speech in unpacking communications addressed to them—with gesture influencing the …

The data discussed in this chapter involves the early classroom experiences of children with
language learning needs. We include children with specific speech and language difficulties …

This paper investigates the social-cognitive and motivational complexities underlying
prelinguistic infants' gestural communication. With regard to deictic referential gestures, new …