Aphasia is a profound language pathology hampering speech production and/or
comprehension. People With Aphasia (PWA) use more manual gestures than Non-Brain …

This exploratory study examined the spontaneous use of gestures occurring in general as
well as the corrective behaviour of two English for academic purposes (EAP) teachers at a …

In this paper, we extend Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) in order to represent
situated multimodal dialogue, with a focus on the modality of gesture. AMR is a general …

The early 1980s witnessed increasing interest by clinicians in assessing and treating people
who, while possessing relatively intact structural language, nonetheless exhibited atypical …

Background It is important to capture a comprehensive language profile from speakers with
aphasia. One way to do this is to evaluate spoken discourse, which is language beyond a …

Abstract Recent English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) studies have examined the linguistic
features of disagreements during interactive academic tasks and casual conversations …

The communicative functions with which infants and pregrammatical speaking children use
signs to interact with others have been the subject of different classifications, usually …

The main goal of this article is to introduce a new method for the analysis of depicted
gestures in painting, namely a transcription system called chiroscript. Based on the model of …

Production of co-speech gestures is a universal aspect of human communication but is still
poorly understood in populations with neurogenic communication disorders. In this chapter …

Conventionally, automatic assessment of pathological speech involves two main steps:(1)
extraction of pathology-specific features;(2) classification or regression of extracted features …