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 …

Human communication combines language with gesture. Gesture contributes to the
uniquely human ability to communicate about an infinite number of ideas in an efficient way …

Research has shown that observing iconic gestures helps typically developing children (TD)
and children with specific language impairment (SLI) learn new words. So far, studies mostly …

Gesture and language development are strongly connected to each other. Two types of
gestures in particular are analyzed regarding their role for language acquisition: pointing …

El desarrollo del lenguaje en el niño es un proceso complejo que se inicia al nacer y abarca
principalmente los seis primeros años de vida. Este volumen recoge una actualización de …

Iconic gesture-speech integration is a relatively recent field of investigation with numerous
researchers studying its various aspects. The results obtained are just as diverse. The …

Listeners are sensitive to speakers' co-speech iconic gestures. Concurrent visual and verbal
information compete for attentional resources during multimodal comprehension. The …

Background Pragmatic skills allow children to use language for social purposes, that is, to
communicate and interact with people. Most children with neurodevelopmental disorders …

Previous studies have suggested that a co-speech gesture needs to be synchronous with
semantically related speech (semantic affiliates) for its successful semantic integration into a …

Previous research has shown differences in monolingual and bilingual communication. We
explored whether monolingual and bilingual pre‐schoolers (N= 80) differ in their ability to …