Do the gestures that speakers produce while talking significantly benefit listeners'
comprehension of the message? This question has been the topic of many research studies …

Conversational repair is the process people use to detect and resolve problems of speaking,
hearing, and understanding. Through repair, participants in social interaction display how …

Speakers often gesture in telephone conversations, even though they are not visible to their
addressees. To test whether this effect is due to being in a dialogue, we separated visibility …

The tradeoff hypothesis in the speech–gesture relationship claims that (a) when gesturing
gets harder, speakers will rely relatively more on speech, and (b) when speaking gets …

In order to produce a coherent narrative, speakers must identify the characters in the tale so
that listeners can figure out who is doing what to whom. This paper explores whether …

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 …

The Handbook of Multimodal-Multisensor Interfaces provides the first authoritative resource
on what has become the dominant paradigm for new computer interfaces—user input …

Patients suffering from severe aphasia have to rely on non-verbal means of communication
to convey a message. However, to date it is not clear which patients are able to do so …

Purpose For many individuals with aphasia, gestures form a vital component of message
transfer and are the target of speech-language pathology intervention. What remains …

Background: Two main conflicting positions exist concerning the relationship of gesture and
speech. The first claims that gesture and speech constitute a single bimodal production …