Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction to Gesture in Language -- I An Emblematic Gesture: Pointing -- 2 Pointing in Gesture and Sign -- 3 Early Pointing Gestures -- II Gesture Before Speech -- 4 Early Gesture Predicts Later Language Development -- 5 Interaction Among Modalities and Within Development -- III Gesture With Speech During Language Learning -- 6 Constructing a System of Communication With Gestures and Words -- 7 Embodying Language Complexity: Co-Speech Gestures Between Age 3 and 4 -- 8 Gesture Can Facilitate Children's Learning and Generalization of Verbs -- IV Gesture After Speech Is Mastered -- 9 On the Codevelopment of Gesture and Monologic Discourse in Children -- 10 Understanding How Gestures Are Produced and Perceived -- 11 Gesture in the Aging Brain -- V Gesture With More Than One Language -- 12 Gesture in Bilingual Language Acquisition -- 13 Bimodal Convergence: How Languages Interact in Multicompetent Language Users' Speech and Gestures -- 14 Gesture Helps Second and Foreign Language Learning and Teaching -- Afterword: Gesture as Part of Language or Partner to Language Across the Lifespan -- Index -- About the Editors