Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- 1 Setting the stage: Gestural repetitions in a multimodal corpus -- 2 Building patterns in spoken and visual modalities -- 3 Repeating gestures: Building (complex) units -- 4 Multimodal utterances I: Repetitive gestures affecting the semantics of speech -- 5 Multimodal utterances II: Repetitive gestures interacting with the syntax of speech -- 6 Cognitive functions of repetitive sequences: Attention and salience -- 7 Closing the stage -- Appendices -- A Notation conventions -- B Description of gestural form features -- C Excerpt from the excel sheet for the example "send back and forth" -- D Transcript example iteration "weapons of mass destruction" -- E Transcript example iteration "Arko" -- F Transcript example iteration "metal thing" -- G Transcript example reduplication "send back and forth" -- H Transcript example reduplication "single steps" -- References -- Index