Marlijn ter Bekke

In face-to-face conversation, people use speech and gesture together to convey meaning. For example, people produce hand movements that depict concrete concepts, such as wiggling the fingers to depict typing (i.e., iconic gestures). Comprehenders integrate the meaning from speech and gesture, and, importantly, seeing gestures alongside speech facilitates their language processing compared with only hearing speech.

1 Introduction Face-to-face conversation involves rapid turn-taking, a human interactional capacity that has sparked much curiosity as to the factors that make this possible. Part of the mechanism facilitating fast turn exchanges seems to involve speakers predicting upcoming semantic information of the incoming turn, such that turn planning can begin before a current turn is complete (e.g., Bögels, Magyari, & Levinson, 2015; Corps, Crossley, Gambi, & Pickering, 2018; Levinson & Torreira, 2015).