Abstract The Gesture as Simulated Action (GSA) framework was proposed to explain how
gestures arise from embodied simulations of the motor and perceptual states that occur …

Speakers use spontaneous hand gestures as they speak and think. These gestures serve
many functions for speakers who produce them as well as for listeners who observe them …

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 …

The development of body movements such as hand or head gestures, or facial expressions,
seems to go hand-in-hand with the development of speech abilities. We know that very …

A longitudinal study with 45 children (Hispanic, 13%; non‐Hispanic, 87%) investigated
whether the early production of non‐referential beat and flip gestures, as opposed to …

The Collaborative Research Center 1412 “Register: Language Users' Knowledge of
Situational-Functional Variation”(CRC 1412) investigates the role of register in language …

The objective of this study was to gain new insights into the processes underlying gestural
communication in adults by examining hand shapes and hand preference patterns …

Children achieve increasingly complex language milestones initially in gesture or in
gesture+ speech combinations before they do so in speech, from first words to first …

Purpose This study investigated the communicative use of eye gaze and gestures in females
with Rett syndrome. Method Data on 151 females with Rett syndrome participating in the …

Bisherige linguistische Studien zum mündlichen Erzählen beziehen sich vornehmlich auf
die Beschreibung verbaler und vokaler Verfahren. Erzählen findet jedoch häufig unter den …