We are in the 17th Workshop on Catalan Prosody, Orality, and Gesture!
Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G)
@grepgupf.bsky.social
The Grup d'Estudis de Prosòdia i Gestualitat (GrEP-G) is part of the Unitat de Recerca en Lingüística (UR-Ling), #TraduccioUPF at @upf.edu 🌐 https://www.upf.edu/web/grepg
#Recerca Tres projectes de recerca punters de la #UPFBarcelona reben un total de 7,2 milions d’euros dels ajuts ERC Advanced Grant de @erc.europa.eu, per desenvolupar recerques innovadores d’alt nivell de diferents àmbits de coneixement. ℹ️ tuit.cat/vgvHw
Yesterday @ingridvilag.bsky.social, @joel-espejoalvarez.bsky.social and @janafolch.bsky.social shared the completed and ongoing educational research projects of the GrEPG research gropu to local education professionals in RECERCAULA. Thank you for everyone who joined!
We are in the 2nd ELLRA Conference!
This afternoon Marlene Castellanos presented the research plan of her PhD thesis on the multimodal pragmatic development in infants and toddlers
This afternoon Xue Meng presented the research plan of her PhD thesis on the second language acquisition of prosody by Chinese learners of English
Today Bryan Gick (Haskins laboratories) presented "The atoms of embodied communication"
Avui i demà som a les XXIX Jornades Interuniversitàries de Recerca en Didàctica de la Llengua i la Literatura
❗️New Open Access paper out 📝 An individualized multimodal narrative intervention for young children with neurodevelopmental disorders 📕 Childhood Education Journal 👥 @juliafloritpons.bsky.social, Pilar Prieto and Alfonso Igualada 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
An Individualized Multimodal Narrative Intervention for Young Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders - Early Childhood Education Journal
Early Childhood Education Journal - This study examines whether an individualized narrative intervention can boost the narrative (macrostructure and perspective-taking) abilities of children with...
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❗️New chapter 📝 From embodied storytelling to writing: Preliminary effectiveness and acceptability of multimodal narrative training in secondary L2 classrooms 📕 Gesture in Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy, De Gruyter Mouton 👥 @ting-yao.bsky.social, Pilar Prieto 🔗 doi.org/10.1515/9783...
From embodied storytelling to writing: Preliminary effectiveness and acceptability of multimodal narrative training in secondary L2 classrooms
From embodied storytelling to writing: Preliminary effectiveness and acceptability of multimodal narrative training in secondary L2 classrooms was published in Gesture in Second Language Acquisition a...
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❗️New chapter out 📝 Observing versus producing gesture for the learning of L2 sounds: What gesture performance tells us 📕 Gesture in Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy, De Gruyter Mouton 👥 Xiaotong Xi, @florencebaills.bsky.social, Peng Li and Pilar Prieto 🔗 doi.org/10.1515/9783...
Observing versus producing gesture for the learning of L2 sounds: What gesture performance tells us
Observing versus producing gesture for the learning of L2 sounds: What gesture performance tells us was published in Gesture in Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy on page 115.
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❗️New paper out 📝 Oral Narrative Interventions in Teaching Second Language Speaking 📕 The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 👥 @ting-yao.bsky.social, Xiaotong Xi and Pilar Prieto 🔗https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118784235.eelt1116
❗️New paper out (OA) 📝 Multimodal imitation reveals differences in typically developing children and children with neurodevelopmental disorders 📕 Cognitive Development 👥 @juliafloritpons.bsky.social, Mariia Pronina, @saracoegom.bsky.social and Pilar Prieto 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Multimodal imitation reveals differences in typically developing children and children with neurodevelopmental disorders
Imitation has been extensively studied in development, with most research examining either verbal/sentence imitation or gesture imitation in isolation…
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🎓 Exciting #PhD opportunity! 🗣️🤝 Come work with us on Co-Speech Gestures and Prosody 🌍 Cotutelle between UPF Barcelona & Goethe Uni Frankfurt All details in the image ⬇️ Please share or reach out if you’re interested! #PhDposition #Linguistics #Gestures #Prosody #Mutimodality
❗️New paper out 📝 Co-creation of a narrative intervention program for speech–language pathology and educational settings. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 📕 American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 👥 @juliafloritpons.bsky.social, Pilar Prieto and Alfonso Igualada
Co-Creation of a Multi-Tiered Narrative Intervention Program for Speech-Language Pathology and Educational Settings
Purpose: This study aims to describe how a multi-tiered multimodal narrative intervention program was developed by integrating research and real-...
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Today is the inaugural event of the @isgscatalonia.bsky.social with a lecture by Prof. Sotaro Kita from University of Warwick on Gesture, language and thought
We are pleased to announce the establishment of ISGS-Catalonia, a hub of the International Society of Gesture studies (ISGS) based in Catalonia. Our inaugural event will feature alecture by Prof. Sotaro Kita on September 26, 2025 at 12:30 pm (GMT+2).
Today Pamela Urra from Universidad Católica de Chile presented the development, evaluation and optimization of the app "Cuenta Conmigo"
We are in the XI Congreso Internacional de Adquisición del Lenguaje (AEAL) y III Congreso de la Asociación Hispanohablante para el Estudio del Trastorno del Lenguaje #AEAL2025 #CHITEL2025!
❗️New Open Access paper out 📝 Multimodal Skills, but Not Motor Skills, Predict Narrative and Expressive Pragmatic Skills in Children With Typical Development and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
❗️New Open Access paper out 📝 Towards a novel conceptualization of prosody that accounts for spoken and visual signals: The modality-neutral prosodic framework hypothesis 📕 Gesture 👥 Pilar Prieto, Núria Esteve-Gibert and Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel 🔗 www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...
Towards a novel conceptualization of prosody that accounts for spoken and visual signals | John Benjamins
Abstract Prosody influences speech organization by signaling phrasal prominence, grouping patterns, and speakers’ pragmatic intentions. While traditionally viewed as restricted to speech, research sho...
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We are in the 10th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies #ISGS2025! @jiali-li.bsky.social presented about the impact of character viewpoint gestures in adults. A study in collaboration with Pilar Prieto and @ingridvilag.bsky.social
We are very happy to announce that the Master students that joined our group this academic year Madeleine Dolz Lane and Paolo Frassine have successfully defended their theses. Congratulations 👏👏
Today @juliafloritpons.bsky.social presented the Multimodal Narrative Intervention in the II Jornada d'Educació Lingüística Basada en l'Evidència Científica
Yesterday, @jiali-li.bsky.social presented the research plan of her PhD thesis on the cognitive, emotional and developmental effects of character viewpoint gestures in storytelling
This afternoon Jana Folch-Claramunt presented the research plan of her PhD thesis on a Multimodal Narrative intervention to support newcomer children in Catalonia
Today Vera Wolfrum from Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg presented the ModalKiS project about modality compaibility and gesture production in children with typically developed (TD) children and children with developmental language disorders (DLD).
🎉 We’re thrilled to announce our #ISGS2025 keynote speaker: Lorna Quandt @lornaquandt.bsky.social Join us for her talk, “Embodied approaches to sign language: From visuospatial cognition to virtual reality” ✨ 🔎 Learn more about her and her talk www.isgs10.nl/keynotes#h.r...
❗️New Open Access paper out 📝 Preschoolers Mark Focus Types Through Multimodal Prominence: Further Evidence for the Precursor Role of Gestures 📕 Languages 👥 @saracoegom.bsky.social, Núria Esteve-Gibert, Pilar Prieto 🔗 www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/10...
