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 …

Abstract Information can be conveyed via multiple channels such as verbal and gestural
(visual) channels during communication. Sometimes the information from different channels …

Bilinguals tend to produce more co-speech hand gestures to compensate for reduced
communicative proficiency when speaking in their L2. We here investigated L1-Turkish and …

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 …

Using hand gestures benefits children's divergent thinking and enhances verbal
improvisation in adults. In the present study, we asked whether gestures were also …

Communication is critical to people's identities, social functioning, and health and wellbeing.
Age-related differences in language processing, specifically the degree to which a speaker …

We communicate emotions in a multimodal way, yet non-verbal emotion communication is a
relatively understudied area of research. In three experiments, we investigated the role of …

We model the role of demographic, neuropsychological and speech variables in
characterizing iconic gesture use in speakers with aphasia, especially gestures that …

Age-related effects are observed in both speech and gesture production. Older adults
produce grammatically fewer complex sentences and use fewer iconic gestures than …

These findings suggest that individuals might use more representational gestures when they
are disfluent if they have enough competency to detect their mistakes, which suggests a …