“…This includes Tabensky's (2001) descriptive analysis of how speakers rephrase their interlocutors' gestures -here the gestures provide feedback to the addressee by offering a new or slightly different interpretation of what they relayed earlier. Within this same group, we find studies that have focused on a related yet different aspect, namely, interlocutors reproducing the same gesture as the previous speaker, also referred to as gesture mimicry (de Fornel, 1992;Holler and Wilkin, 2011;Kimbara, 2006Kimbara, , 2008. For example, Holler and Wilkin (2011) provided an overview of how, in the context of referential communication, mimicked gestures can provide important feedback for the preceding speaker about the comprehensibility of the message, thus playing a role in the process of grounding (Clark and Brennan, 1991).…”