This chapter traces the burgeoning field of developmental gesture studies and examines the
emergence of gestures as visible utterances, adult responses to children's gestures, and the …

Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or with Down syndrome (DS) show diagnosis-
specific differences from typically developing (TD) children in gesture production. We asked …

This study investigated whether seeing iconic gestures depicting verb referents promotes
two types of generalization. We taught 3‐to 4‐year‐olds novel locomotion verbs. Children …

This study examined (a) how observing different types of gestures while listening to a story
affected the recall of path and event information in 5-year-old children (n= 71) and adults (n …

Gesture comprehension remains understudied, particularly in children with autism spectrum
disorder (ASD) who have difficulties in gesture production. Using a novel gesture …

Pet dogs are known to be responsive to human pointing gestures, but shelter dogs have
repeatedly demonstrated poor abilities to follow human pointing, although they can be …

Background Conventional gestures (CG) contribute to communication and are a precursor of
verbal language. The aim of our study was:(a) to analyse the developmental course of CG …

Observations that iconicity diminishes over time in sign languages pose a puzzle: Why
should something so evidently useful and functional decrease? Using an archival dataset of …

Production and comprehension of gesture emerge early and are key to subsequent
language development in typical development. Compared to typically developing (TD) …

Children show sex differences in early speech development, with girls producing a greater
number and variety of words at an earlier age than boys (Berglund et al. in Scand J Psychol …