Table of Contents

1. About the authors; 2. Preface (by Gullberg, Marianne); 3. Gestures and some key issues in the study of language development (by Gullberg, Marianne); 4. Before L1: A differentiated perspective on infant gestures (by Liszkowski, Ulf); 5. The relationship between spontaneous gesture production and spoken lexical ability in children with Down syndrome in a naming task (by Stefanini, Silvia); 6. The effect of gestures on second language memorisation by young children (by Tellier, Marion); 7. Gesture and information structure in first and second language (by Yoshioka, Keiko); 8. Gesture viewpoint in Japanese and English: Cross-linguistic interactions between two languages in one speaker (by Brown, Amanda); 9. Author index; 10. Subject index