Gestures are an integral part of every-day human communication and serve many different
functions (eg they aid lexical retrieval, the learning of a second language or can be used as …

One traditional view of how speech and gesture interact in talk is that gestures represent
information, which is largely redundant with respect to the information contained in the …

Human communication consists of more than just the exchange of spoken words. When
people speak, they use all kinds of audiovisual cues, such as intonation, but also body …

The study of gesture has a long history (Kendon, 1982). The earliest books devoted
exclusively to it appeared in the 17th century (eg, Bulwer 1644). In the 18th century …

The present review explores the integrated relationship between gesture and speech during
language comprehension. Taking a broad view, it presents a conceptual framework that …

Most research focuses function of gesture independent of its link to the speech it
accompanies and the coexpressive functions it has together with speech. This chapter …

Researchers have theorised that speech and gesture are integrated in communication. We
ask whether this integrated relationship is indexed by a unique temporal link between …

Why do we gesture when we speak? The Cognitive Psychology of Speech-Related Gesture
offers answers to this question while introducing readers to the huge interdisciplinary field of …

David McNeill is one of the founding fathers of modern gesture studies. He has significantly
contributed to the establishment of co-speech gesture as a recognized field of research …

Gestures and speech are tightly linked. Since McNeill (1992) argued that gesture and
speech form a single integrated system, research has shown that gestures and speech …