Elina Mainela-Arnold
List of John Benjamins publications for which Elina Mainela-Arnold plays a role.
Articles
2016 The temporal relationship between speech and manual communicative gesture in children with specific language impairment Gesture 15:3, pp. 321–339 | Article
This study examined the relationship between word frequency and timing of communicative gestures in children with specific language impairment (SLI) and typically-developing (TD) children. Nine children with SLI and twelve age-matched TD children produced a narrative after watching an animated… read more
2009 Gesture–speech integration in narrative: Are children less redundant than adults? Gesture 9:3, pp. 290–311 | Article
Speakers sometimes express information in gestures that they do not express in speech. In this research, we developed a system that could be used to assess the redundancy of gesture and speech in a narrative task. We then applied this system to examine whether children and adults produce… read more