Gestures during speaking are typically understood in a representational framework: they
represent absent or distal states of affairs by means of pointing, resemblance, or symbolic …

The view put forward here is that visual bodily signals play a core role in human
communication and the coordination of minds. Critically, this role goes far beyond referential …

Beat gestures—spontaneously produced biphasic movements of the hand—are among the
most frequently encountered co-speech gestures in human communication. They are closely …

It is now widely accepted that the brunt of animal communication is conducted via several
modalities, eg acoustic and visual, either simultaneously or sequentially. This is a laudable …

Moving in synchrony to the beat is a fundamental component of musicality. Here we
conducted a genome-wide association study to identify common genetic variants associated …

In many musical styles, vocalists manually gesture while they sing. Coupling between
gesture kinematics and vocalization has been examined in speech contexts, but it is an …

Expressive moments in communicative hand gestures often align with emphatic stress in
speech. It has recently been found that acoustic markers of emphatic stress arise naturally …

Why is breathing relevant in linguistics? In this review, we approach this question from
different perspectives. The most popular view is that breathing adapts to speech because …

It is commonly understood that hand gesture and speech coordination in humans is
culturally and cognitively acquired, rather than having a biological basis. Recently, however …

Recursive procedures that allow placing a vocal signal inside another of a similar kind
provide a neuro-computational blueprint for syntax and phonology in spoken language and …