Integrating Gestures -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Part I. Nature and functions of gestures -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- What are gestures? -- Typology and coding -- Areas of research -- Nature and functions of gestures -- First language development and gesture -- Second language effects on gesture -- Gesture in the classroom and in problem-solving -- Gesture aspects of discourse and interaction -- Gestural analysis of music and dance -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2. Addressing the problems of intentionality and granularity in non-human primate gesture -- Introduction -- Identifying intentional gestures -- Addressing the granularity of analysis -- Granularity and gesture meaning -- Assessing meaning in orangutan gestures -- A systematic approach to assessing meaning -- Using meaning to evaluate granularity -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 3. Birth of a Morph -- What is a morph? -- It is not recurrence -- Morph hallmarks -- Whence a morph? -- Standards of form and their emergence in gesture-only communication -- Ritualization -- Birth of a syntagmatic value -- Gesture families, preliminary and ephemeral morphs -- Summary and conclusions: Birth of the static dimension -- Why is an absence of speech important? -- With speech, however, the role of gesture changes -- The bioprogram -- Rethinking the morph -- References -- Chapter 4. Dyadic evidence for grounding with abstract deictic gestures -- 1. Studying gestural communication by individuals versus dyads -- 2. Grounding -- 3. Abstract deictics -- 4. Research design and procedures -- 4.1 Task and hypotheses -- 4.2 Method and procedure -- 5. Analysis and results -- 5.1 The data set -- 5.2 Identifying nonredundant speech/gesture combinations -- 5.3 Grounding sequences -- 6. Summary -- References.

Chapter 5. If you don't already know, I'm certainly not going to show you! -- Introduction -- Method -- Participants -- Materials -- Procedure -- Data coding -- Reliability -- Results -- Analysis of speech -- Analysis of gesture -- Discussion -- References -- Author note -- Chapter 6. Measuring the formal diversity of hand gestures by their hamming distance -- Introduction -- Gesture transcription -- Handedness -- HamNoSys -- The reduced HamNoSys symbol set -- The input programm HamNoChart -- A measure of diversity: The hamming distance -- Interrater-reliability of the method -- Onset of the stroke -- Handedness -- Transcription of single gestures -- Different feature categories -- Hamming distances -- Application of the method in a pilot study -- Subjects -- Material -- Procedure -- Data analysis -- Results -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7. 'Parallel gesturing' in adult-child conversations -- Introduction -- Conclusions -- References -- Part II. First language development and gesture -- Chapter 8. Sentences and conversations before speech? -- Gesture as a window into preverbal cognitive and social skills -- Development of combining symbolic representations -- Development of turn-taking in communication -- Current study: Development of gestural sentences and conversations in preverbal children -- Methods -- Gesture-rich environment -- Participants -- Data collection -- Coding and transcription -- Variables -- Analysis -- Results -- Sentences -- Conversations -- Discussion and conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9. Giving a nod to social cognition -- Introduction -- Defining conventional gestures and infant signs -- The current study -- Input frequency -- Motoric complexity -- Methods -- Sample -- Exposure to infant signs -- Videotaping procedures -- Coding -- Results -- Infants' use of gesture and sign.

Accounting for variability in emergence -- Frequency of input -- Motor complexity -- Discussion -- Measuring spontaneous communication -- Variation in emergence timing -- Integrating component skills and context -- Late emergence of head gestures -- References -- Chapter 10. Sensitivity of maternal gesture to interlocutor and context -- Method -- Participants -- Questionnaires -- Stimuli -- Procedure -- Coding and analysis -- Coding of maternal gesture by type -- Results -- Proportional gesture rates -- Gesture types -- Deictic gestures -- Representational gestures -- Emphatic gestures -- Gesture and children's current communicative ability -- Discussion -- Modification of maternal communication -- Modification of gesture types -- Sensitivity of gesture to children's current linguistic level? -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 11. The organization of children's pointing stroke endpoints -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Method -- 2.1 Data -- 2.2 Explicit exclusion of some instances from analysis -- 2.3 Coding of the data -- 3. Analysis -- 3.1 The existence of two main types of timing -- 3.2 Parental responses in relation to short/sustained strokes -- 3.3 The internal dynamics of sustained pointing sequences -- 4. Discussion and conclusions -- 5. Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 12. Is there an iconic gesture spurt at 26 months? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Children's early iconic gesture production and comprehension -- 3. Do comprehension and production of iconic gestures go hand-in-hand? -- 4. How do parents use iconic gestures when they talk to their children? -- 5. Types of meanings conveyed in child and parent iconic gestures -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 13. The development of spatial perspective in the description of large-scale environments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Method -- 2.1 Participants -- 2.2 Procedure.

2.3 Coding of gestures and spatial perspective -- 3. Results -- 3.1 Spatial perspective in gestures -- 3.2 Mean scores of speech and gestural measures in route and survey group -- 3.3 Describing the starting point in the route group -- 3.4 Describing the starting point in the survey group -- 4. Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 14. Learning to use gesture in narratives -- Introduction -- Method -- Participants -- Procedure and task -- Coding -- Results -- Formational parameters -- Hand-shapes -- Place of articulation -- Hand orientation -- Movement -- Formal accuracy -- Representational correctness -- Representational strategies -- Discussion and conclusion -- References -- Chapter 15. The changing role of gesture form and function in a picture book interaction between a child with autism and his support teacher -- Introduction -- Autistic spectrum disorder -- Gesture in autism -- Aims of this study -- Method -- Participants -- Procedure -- Results -- Establishing attention: deictic gestures -- Talking about animals: Emblems and iconic gestures -- Co-constructing interaction: Mixing gestures -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix A: Nathan's profile of core skills -- Appendix B: Transcription conventions -- Part III. Second language effects on gesture -- Chapter 16. A cross-linguistic study of verbal and gestural descriptions in French and Japanese monolingual and bilingual children -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methods -- 2.1 Participants -- 2.2 Materials and apparatus -- 2.3 Procedure -- 2.4 Coding -- 3. Results -- 4. Discussion -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 17. Gesture and language shift on the Uruguayan-Brazilian border -- Introduction -- Previous research -- Contact along the Uruguayan-Brazilian border -- Gesture shift -- Method -- Results -- Discussion -- Conclusion.

References -- Part IV. Gesture in the classroom and in problem-solving -- Chapter 18. Seeing the graph vs. being the graph -- Current work in mathematics education and gesture -- Preamble: Background and purpose of this study -- Graphs & gestures pilot study in schools: Research questions, participants, procedures -- Results: An emergent diagnostic pattern in graph gestures -- Discussion -- Further implications for research and practice -- References -- Chapter 19. How gesture use enables intersubjectivity in the classroom -- Intersubjectivity in the classroom -- Gestural catchment to provide conversational repair -- Use of linking gestures to enable intersubjectivity for a novel representation -- Discussion -- References -- Chapter 20. Microgenesis of gestures during mental rotation tasks recapitulates ontogenesis -- Introduction -- 2. Development of problem solving strategy in mental rotation -- 2.1 Evidence for the deagentivization process -- 2.2 Evidence for the internalization process -- 2.3 Evidence for the facilitatory role of gesture in the deagentivization process -- 3. Conclusion -- References -- Part V. Gesture aspects of discourse and interaction -- Chapter 21. Gesture and discourse -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Method -- 2.1 Materials -- 2.2 Data coding -- 3. Results -- 4. Discussion -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 22. Speakers' use of 'action' and 'entity' gestures with definite and indefinite references -- Introduction -- Method -- Experimental design -- Participants -- Materials -- Procedure -- Analysis -- Speech segmentation -- Coding for definite and indefinite references based on grammatical determiner -- Gesture coding -- Results -- Definite and indefinite references -- Co-speech gestures -- 'Action' and 'entity' co-speech gestures -- Discussion -- References -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 23. "Voices" and bodies.

1. Polyphonic "Voices" inside speech.