Gesture 8:2 came out recently. It is a special issue on 'Gestures in language development'. Amanda Brown, a friend who stayed at the MPI doing PhD research, published a paper on
Gesture viewpoint in Japanese and English: Cross-linguistic interactions between two languages in one speaker. Marianne Gullberg, Kees de Bot and Virginia Volterra wrote an introductory chapter '
Gestures and some key issues in the study of language development'. Kees de Bot (
LinkedIn) is a
professor in Groningen working on (second) language acquisition.