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 …

Children might combine gesture and prosody to express a pragmatic meaning such as a
request, information focus, uncertainty or politeness, before they can convey these …

This chapter traces the burgeoning field of developmental gesture studies and examines the
emergence of gestures as visible utterances, adult responses to children's gestures, and the …

Human language is characterized by the integration of multiple signal modalities, including
speech, facial and gestural signals. While language likely has deep evolutionary roots that …

Children's rhythmic movements during the first year of life possess a meaningful predictive
validity for later communicative development. However, their role within adult-child …

Purpose: This study aims to analyze the development of gesture–speech temporal
alignment patterns in children's narrative speech from a longitudinal perspective and …

The aim of this study is to analyze the relationship between rhythmic movements and deictic
gestures at the end of the first year of life, and to focus on their unimodal or multimodal …

Neural auditory processing and prelinguistic communication build the foundation for later
language development, but how these two are associated is not well known. The current …

The aim of this study was to analyze the use of representational gestures from a multimodal
point of view in the transition from one‐word to multi‐word constructions. Twenty‐one …

This study focuses on the multimodal communication of children with autism spectrum
disorders (ASD) compared to typically developing (TD) children. Eleven children with ASD …