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Zusammenfassung:
The production of cohesive discourse, especially
maintained reference, poses problems for early second language
(L2) speakers. This paper considers a communicative
account of overexplicit L2 discourse by focusing on the
interdependence between spoken and gestural cohesion,
the latter being expressed by anchoring of referents in
gesture space. Specifically, this study investigates whether
overexplicit maintained reference in speech (lexical noun
phrases [NPs]) and gesture (anaphoric gestures) constitutes
an interactional communication strategy. We examine
L2 speech and gestures of 16 Dutch learners of French
retelling stories to addressees under two visibility conditions.
The results indicate that the overexplicit properties
of L2 speech are not motivated by interactional strategic
concerns. The results for anaphoric gestures are more complex.
Although their presence is not interactionally
