Children might combine gesture and prosody to express a pragmatic meaning such as a
request, information focus, uncertainty or politeness, before they can convey these …

This article investigates how children leverage intonational and gestural cues to an
individual's belief state through unimodal (intonation-only or facial gesture-only) and …

This study explores how young children infer nuances in epistemic modality through
prosody. A forced-choice task was used, testing children's (ages three to seven) …

Prosodic and pragmatic abilities develop in parallel over the preschool years and beyond.
While tests that measure prosodic skills in children do exist at present, there exists no test …

METHOD: A total of 42 3-to-4-year-old typically developing Catalan-speaking children
participated in the study. Children's pragmatic prosody skills were assessed by means of the …

Humans speak and produce hand gestures. It has been shown that hand gestures are a key
component of the process of speech production and that the two modalities interact at …