The shrug is a widely shared gesture ensemble with several different components. These
include: lifting the shoulders; rotating the forearms outwards with extended fingers to a “palm …

Background Language development is a highly interactive activity. However, most research
on linguistic environment has focused on the quantity and complexity of linguistic input to …

When people interact to establish shared symbols for novel objects or concepts, they often
rely on multiple communicative modalities as well as on alignment (ie, cross-participant …

It is widely supposed that speakers only gesture while speaking. In this paper, we consider
how participants in Norwegian conversation use gestures held beyond the end of a turn-at …

This paper demonstrates that it is necessary to look at learners' gestures and speech to have
a complete picture of their conceptualizations in their L2. It argues that context and task …

Abstract 'Disfluencies', defined as a suspension of speech, are usually more frequent in L2
than in L1, which is said to be related to the learners' proficiency level.'Disfluency'or …

This paper introduces the Slapping movement as an embodied practice of dislike or meta-
commentary recurring in conflictive situations between German children aged four to six …

Dans cet article, nous étendons la notion de chaîne de référence au discours oral et
l'envisageons d'un point de vue multimodal au cours de l'interaction en tandem linguistique …

The study examines the interactive functions of gesture repetitions as a specific form of
interpersonal synchronization in argumentative decision-making processes of peers (1–6 …

In social interactions, people coordinate their actions in an effort to incrementally and
interactively reach their communicative goals. One component of such joint actions is cross …