Julia L. Evans

List of John Benjamins publications in which Julia L. Evans is involved.

Articles

Sanjeevan, Teenu, Elina Mainela-Arnold, Martha W. Alibali and Julia L. Evans 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

Alibali, Martha W., Julia L. Evans, Autumn Hostetter, Kristin Ryan and Elina Mainela-Arnold 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