Effects of encouraging the use of gestures on speech

A Cravotta, MG Busà, P Prieto - Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing …, 2019 - ASHA
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 …

Narrative performance and sociopragmatic abilities in preschool children are linked to multimodal imitation skills

E Castillo, M Pronina, I Hübscher… - Journal of Child Language, 2023 - cambridge.org
Over recent decades much research has analyzed the relevance of 9-to 20-month-old
infants' early imitation skills (object-and language-based imitation) for language …

Narrative performance and sociopragmatic abilities in preschool children are Linked to multimodal imitation skills

E Castillo Sánchez, M Pronina, I Hübscher… - Journal of Child …, 2023 - repositori.upf.edu
Over recent decades much research has analyzed the relevance of 9-to 20-month-old
infants' early imitation skills (object-and language-based imitation) for language …

The Relationship between narrative abilities and multimodal imitation abilities in preschool children

E Castillo Sánchez - 2019 - repositori.upf.edu
Previous studies have shown that gestures precede and predict children's milestones in
vocabulary, sentence structure, and narratives. Yet little is known about whether multimodal …

Restraining and encouraging the use of gestures: exploring the effects on speech

A Cravotta - 2019 - research.unipd.it
Humans speak and produce hand gestures. It has been shown that hand gestures are a key
component of the process of speech production and that the two modalities interact at …