When people talk, they gesture. Gesture is a fundamental component of language that
contributes meaningful and unique information to a spoken message and reflects the …

Background Discourse in adults with aphasia is increasingly the focus of assessment and
therapy research. A broad range of measures is available to describe discourse, but very …

Aim of the present study is to provide a multifocal assessment of pragmatic abilities in
patients with right hemisphere damage (RHD). Pragmatics refers to the ability to use …

Background Right hemisphere communication disorders are neither consistently labelled
nor adequately defined. Labels associated with right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) are …

Background: There is considerable disagreement in the literature concerning the function of
co‐verbal gesture. Studies of the relationship between speech and gesture have employed …

Background: Conveying instructions is an everyday use of language, and gestures are likely
to be a key feature of this. Although co-speech iconic gestures are tightly integrated with …

Background: Specific language impairment has previously solely been documented for
children acquiring spoken languages, despite informal reports of deaf children with possible …

Purpose: In persons living with aphasia, we will explore the relationship between iconic
gesture production during spontaneous speech and discourse task, spoken language, and …

With clinical purposes in mind, a review of the proximal/distal opposition is carried out in
order to define a universal parameter of variability in semiotic procedures. By taking into …

Brain damage is associated with linguistic deficits and might alter co-speech gesture
production. Gesture production after focal brain injury has been mainly investigated with …