[HTML][HTML] The value of non-referential gestures: a systematic review of their cognitive and linguistic effects in children's language development

I Vila-Gimenez, P Prieto - Children, 2021 - mdpi.com
Speakers produce both referential gestures, which depict properties of a referent, and non-
referential gestures, which lack semantic content. While a large number of studies have …

Multimodal language in bilingual and monolingual children: Gesture production and speech disfluency

B Arslan, A Aktan-Erciyes, T Göksun - Bilingualism: Language and …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Bilingual and monolingual children might have different styles of using multimodal
language. This study investigates speech disfluency and gesture production of 5-and 7-year …

[HTML][HTML] Children use non-referential gestures in narrative speech to mark discourse elements which update common ground

PL Rohrer, J Florit-Pons, I Vilà-Giménez… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
While recent studies have claimed that non-referential gestures (ie, gestures that do not
visually represent any semantic content in speech) are used to mark discourse-new and/or …

The predictive value of non‐referential beat gestures: Early use in parent–child interactions predicts narrative abilities at 5 years of age

I Vilà‐Giménez, N Dowling, ÖE Demir‐Lira… - Child …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A longitudinal study with 45 children (Hispanic, 13%; non‐Hispanic, 87%) investigated
whether the early production of non‐referential beat and flip gestures, as opposed to …

Classroom gesture instruction on second language learners' academic presentations: Evidence from Chinese intermediate English learners

J Wang, Y Gao, Y Cui - Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2023 - Elsevier
Gesture has been recognized as an important aspect of second language (L2) acquisition,
playing a vital role in L2 communication. Previous research has shown that L2 learners' …

[HTML][HTML] Gesture production at encoding supports narrative recall

N Sweller, AJ Choi, E Austin - Psychological Research, 2024 - Springer
Existing research is inconsistent regarding the effects of gesture production on narrative
recall. Most studies have examined the effects of gesture production during a recall phase …

[HTML][HTML] The role of gestures in autobiographical memory

C Aydin, T Göksun, E Otenen, SB Tanis, YD Şentürk - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Speakers employ co-speech gestures when thinking and speaking; however, gesture's role
in autobiographical episodic representations is not known. Based on the gesture-for …

A Hands‐On Approach to Learning: Gesture Production During Encoding and its Effect on Narrative Recall

A Bharadwaj, N Dargue, N Sweller - Cognitive Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Research has shown that gesture production supports learning across a number of tasks. It
is unclear, however, whether gesture production during encoding can support narrative …

Pre‐schoolers use head gestures rather than prosodic cues to highlight important information in speech

N Esteve‐Gibert, H Lœvenbruck, M Dohen… - Developmental …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Previous evidence suggests that children's mastery of prosodic modulations to signal the
informational status of discourse referents emerges quite late in development. In the present …

[HTML][HTML] Metaphoric gestures in simultaneous interpreting

AV Leonteva, A Cienki, OV Agafonova - Russian Journal of …, 2023 - cyberleninka.ru
The paper deals with the degree to which interpreters incorporate visible behaviors from the
people they are interpreting into their own practice. Since metaphoric gestures objectify …