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 …

The development of body movements such as hand or head gestures, or facial expressions,
seems to go hand-in-hand with the development of speech abilities. We know that very …

There is plenty of evidence that speech and gesture form a tightly integrated system, as
reflected in parallelisms in language production, comprehension, and development (;). Yet, it …

Iconic and pointing gestures are important precursors of children's early language and
cognitive development. While beat gestures seem to have positive effects on the recall of …

Embodied theories of cognition consider many aspects of language and other cognitive
domains as the result of sensory and motor processes. In this view, the appraisal and the …

El desarrollo del lenguaje en el niño es un proceso complejo que se inicia al nacer y abarca
principalmente los seis primeros años de vida. Este volumen recoge una actualización de …

Gesture is an integral part of language development. While recent evidence shows that
observing a speaker who is simultaneously producing beat gestures helps preschoolers …

Manual co-speech gestures can facilitate language comprehension, but do they influence
language comprehension in simultaneous interpreters, and if so, is this influence modulated …

Translanguaging in science includes the use of semiotic repertoires complete with non-
linguistic modes of meaning (eg gesture, tactile) that until recently have gone unnoticed in …

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 …