How does sign language compare with gesture, on the one hand, and spoken language on
the other? Sign was once viewed as nothing more than a system of pictorial gestures without …

A great deal of attention has recently been paid to gesture and its effects on thinking and
learning. It is well established that the hand movements that accompany speech are an …

It is with renewed appreciation for the size of the task that I come to writing the present
chapter. The number of special issues of journals dedicated to im/politeness these days …

We review findings from a four-year longitudinal study of language learning conducted on
two samples: a sample of typically develo** children whose parents vary substantially in …

We hypothesize that linguistic (dis-) organization in the schizophrenic brain plays a more
central role in the pathogenesis of this disease than commonly supposed. Against the …

Humans communicate using language, but they also communicate using gesture–
spontaneous movements of the hands and body that universally accompany speech …

The first gestures that children produce intentionally to communicate with others, make
sense of the world around them, and control their behavior are ostensive gestures of …

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 …

The goal of this paper is to widen the lens on language to include the manual modality. We
look first at hearing children who are acquiring language from a spoken language model …

Gesture and language development are strongly connected to each other. Two types of
gestures in particular are analyzed regarding their role for language acquisition: pointing …