Children might combine gesture and prosody to express a pragmatic meaning such as a
request, information focus, uncertainty or politeness, before they can convey these …

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 …

While it is well known that prosodic features are central in the conveyance of pragmatic
meaning across languages, developmental research has assessed a narrow set of …

This chapter reviews evidence on how infants up to 18 months of age develop the ability to
use prosody as a sign of the expression of pragmatic meanings, from both a comprehension …

Gesture and prosody are considered to be important precursors in early language
development. In the present study, we ask whether those cues play a similar role later in …

This paper investigates the social-cognitive and motivational complexities underlying
prelinguistic infants' gestural communication. With regard to deictic referential gestures, new …

Prosodic features constitute a resource that participants draw on to accomplish a range of
interactional tasks. How children develop this ability has been little researched. In this study …

Children use gesture to refer to objects before they produce labels for these objects and
gesture–speech combinations to convey semantic relations between objects before …

Children are known to use different types of referential gestures (eg, deictic, iconic) from a
very young age. In contrast, their use of non-referential gestures is not well established. This …

Through daily exposure to the surrounding input structured in conversations, children's
language gradually develops into rich linguistic constructions that contain multiple cross …