Bilingual and monolingual children might have different styles of using multimodal
language. This study investigates speech disfluency and gesture production of 5-and 7-year …

Emotional content, specifically negative valence, can differentially influence speech
production in younger and older adults' autobiographical narratives, which have been …

Speakers employ co-speech gestures when thinking and speaking; however, gesture's role
in autobiographical episodic representations is not known. Based on the gesture-for …

Theories suggest that representational gestures depicting properties of referents in
accompanying speech could facilitate language production and comprehension. In order to …

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) meets more informal and free-form input data as voice
user interfaces and conversational agents such as the voice assistants such as Alexa …

Communication is critical to people's identities, social functioning, and health and wellbeing.
Age-related differences in language processing, specifically the degree to which a speaker …

Research on the adaptations talkers make to different communication conditions during
interactive conversations has primarily focused on speech signals. We extended this type of …

Speech comprehension can be challenging due to multiple factors, causing inconvenience
for both the speaker and the listener. In such situations, using a humanoid robot, Pepper …

Substantial individual variation exists in the frequency of gestures produced while speaking.
This study investigated the associations between cognitive abilities, empathy levels, and …

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