This study explores the patterns of gesture and speech combinations from the babbling
period to the one-word stage and the temporal alignment between the two modalities. The …

Iconic and pointing gestures are important precursors of children's early language and
cognitive development. While beat gestures seem to have positive effects on the recall of …

Although the positive effects of iconic gestures on word recall and comprehension by
children have been clearly established, less is known about the benefits of beat gestures …

This study investigates how epistemic stance is encoded and perceived in face-to-face
communication when language is regarded as comprised by speech and gesture. Two …

This study explores the effects of embodied prosodic training on the production of non-native
French front rounded vowels (ie/y, ø, œ/) and the overall pronunciation proficiency. Fifty …

In this study we investigate how word order interacts with prosody in the expression of
sentence modality and different focus constructions in different varieties of Catalan and …

This book examines how speakers of Ibero-Romance'do things' with conversational units of
language, paying particular attention to what they do with i) vocatives, interjections, and …

The main aim of this book is to contribute to our understanding of the acquisition of second
language intonation, by comparing Czech learners of Spanish with German learners of …

Although intonation has been traditionally associated with the expression of attitudes and
intentions on the part of the speaker, little is known about whether sociopragmatic factors …

This paper sheds new light on the question of how neutral and contrastive focus is realized
in Spanish and Catalan. By considering data collected through a production experiment …