When people talk, they gesture. Gesture is a fundamental component of language that
contributes meaningful and unique information to a spoken message and reflects the …

Gestures are seemingly trivial, but actually they are interesting and crucial components of
language. By studying them, in conjunction with language (not in isolation), we gain new …

Many nonverbal behaviors—smiling, blushing, shrugging—reveal our emotions. One
nonverbal behavior, gesturing, exposes our thoughts. This book explores how we move our …

Adults and children spontaneously produce gestures while they speak, and such gestures
appear to support and expand on the information communicated by the verbal channel. Little …

McNeill (1985) claimed that speech and its accompanying gestures “share a common
computational stage” that is located early in the speech production process. This position …

There is plenty of evidence that speech and gesture form a tightly integrated system, as
reflected in parallelisms in language production, comprehension, and development (;). Yet, it …

Why do people gesture while speaking? What role does this activity play in verbal
exchanges? Which kind of relationship does it exhibit between the verbal and the gestural …

People engaged in speaking ordinarily perform a variety of movements which are not strictly
a part of the speaking act: they nod their heads, change their postures, gesture with their …

Patterns of speech-related ('coverbal') gestures were investigated in three groups of right-
handed, brain-damaged patients and in matched controls. One group had anomic aphasia …

The tip‐of‐the‐tongue (TOT) state was induced in participants to test Butterworth & Hadar's
(1989) theory that iconic gestures have a functional role in lexical access. Participants were …