Gesture-first theories of language origins often raise two unsubstantiated arguments against
vocal origins. First, they argue that great ape vocal behavior is highly constrained, limited to …

Why, in all cultures in which hearing is possible, has language become the province of
speech and the oral modality? I address this question by widening the lens with which we …

Between 1946 and 1953, leading scientists met in New York in the context of the so-called
Macy conferences, often linked to the emergence of cybernetics. They hankered for a new …

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 …

We address in this work interactive gestures as a distinct type of knowledge that users
acquire and employ when interacting in smart environments. We characterize the problem of …

Turn-taking–the coordinated and efficient transition between the roles of sender and
receiver in communication–is a fundamental property of conversational interaction. The turn …

When giving descriptions, speakers often signify object shape or size with hand gestures.
Such so-called 'iconic'gestures represent their meaning through their relevance to referents …

Interpreting is a transfer practice which takes place in a specific communication scenario. It
therefore includes non verbal elements which have to be duly perceived, comprehended …

Hand gestures are yoked to speech in a highly-correlated system, often referred to as co-
speech (Hostetter, 2011). Both disfluency and gesture have been show to influence …

Hand gestures are yoked to speech in a highly-correlated system, often referred to as co-
speech (Hostetter, 2011). Both disfluency and gesture have been show to influence …