The development of body movements such as hand or head gestures, or facial expressions,
seems to go hand-in-hand with the development of speech abilities. We know that very …

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 …

Recent comparative semantics suggests that sign language makes use of the same logical
resources as spoken language, but has richer mechanisms of iconic enrichment. It is often …

This study investigates how epistemic stance is encoded and perceived in face-to-face
communication when language is regarded as comprised by speech and gesture. Two …

We argue that some properties of sign language grammar have counterparts in non-signers'
intuitions about gestures, including ones that are probably very uncommon. Thus despite the …

This article investigates whether newsreaders exploit their expressive style for signalling
different types of communicatively relevant information. The study reported upon here …

Recently, some studies have revealed that facial gestures can play an important role in
teasing out the meaning of interrogative sentence types in a particular language (Srinivasan …

Facial beat gestures align with pitch accents in speech, functioning as visual prominence
markers. However, it is not yet well understood whether and how gestures and pitch accents …

The manual gestures that accompany spoken utterances come in many different forms, and
serve a number of different purposes. McNeill's classic (1975) descriptive types, with …

Contemporary formal semantics was born from the project to treat natural languages as
formal languages, not just in their syntactic component (as generative syntax had done), but …