Repetitive sequences play a major role as a pattern-building device and are a basic syntagmatic linguistic means on all language levels in spoken and signed lan

This book presents a repertoire of conventionalized co-speech gestures used by Hausa speakers from northern Nigeria.

Establishing the inseparability of grammar and gesture, this book explains what determines when, how, and why we gesture.

Embodied conversational agents (ECA) and speech-based human-machine interfaces can together represent more advanced and more natural human-machine interaction.