Native speakers of a language, it seems, can fill time with talk easily, speak smoothly,
appropriately, correctly, with ease and effortlessness. But it appears extremely difficult to …

Age‐related changes are observed in the speech and gestures of neurotypical individuals.
Older adults are more disfluent in speech and use fewer representational gestures (eg …

Why do people gesture when they speak? According to one influential proposal, the Lexical
Retrieval Hypothesis (LRH), gestures serve a cognitive function in speakers' minds by …

Purpose Previous studies have investigated the effects of the inability to produce hand
gestures on speakers' prosodic features of speech; however, the potential effects of …

The main focus of phonetics, throughout its history, has been upon segmental features of
speech. Although this focus is understandable, given that a primary motivation for …

Do people speak differently when they cannot use their hands? Previous studies have
suggested that speech becomes less fluent and more monotonous when speakers cannot …

Research on gesture production has emphasized the strong relationship between speech
and gesture. Studies have explored whether the inability to gesture is detrimental to speech …

Previous studies have investigated the effects of the inability to make hand gestures on
speakers' fluency; however, the question of whether encouraging speakers to gesture affects …

Throughout the world, there are phoneticians who have been influenced by the teaching,
research, and writings of John Laver. Many have worked with him personally, and most of …

People gesture when they speak, especially when speaking is difficult. People are more
likely to gesture when their speech is disfluent or when they are about to utter a low …