Abstract The Gesture as Simulated Action (GSA) framework was proposed to explain how
gestures arise from embodied simulations of the motor and perceptual states that occur …

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 …

Gestures and speech interact. They are linked in language production and perception, with
their interaction contributing to felicitous communication. The multifaceted nature of these …

Stuttering and Cluttering provides a clear, accessible and wide-ranging overview of both the
theoretical and clinical aspects of two disorders of fluency: stuttering and cluttering. This …

The home of human language use is face-to-face interaction, a context in which
communicative exchanges are characterised not only by bodily signals accompanying what …

This paper explores the interaction between intonation and gesture, noting temporal,
structural, and pragmatic synchrony. Videotapes of subjects conversing freely were …

What do people do with sniffs, lip-smacks, grunts, moans, sighs, whistles, and clicks, where
these are not part of their language's phonetic inventory? They use them, we shall show, as …

Beat gestures—spontaneously produced biphasic movements of the hand—are among the
most frequently encountered co-speech gestures in human communication. They are closely …

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

Crisis situations such as the current Covid-19 pandemic are a catalyst for change. This study
stresses the need to work towards achieving quality education, and to prepare future …