Opportunity to join our team: PhD fellowship. Application deadline: April 24, 2026. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/426755

Our new paper is out! 🚀 This paper, published in Early Childhood Education Journal, examines the effectiveness of an individualized multimodal narrative intervention for boosting children's oral narrative abilities. Check it out! 👇

Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G)@grepgupf.bsky.social · 4mo ago

❗️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...

❗️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

Check out our new paper about children’s multimodal imitation, which has been published in the special issue “Multimodal language, communication and thinking” (eds. @tilbegoksun.bsky.social @ecedemirlira.bsky.social) in Cognitive Development

Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G)@grepgupf.bsky.social · 7mo ago

❗️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...

🎓 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

🗣️👋 Our member @ingridvilag.bsky.social joined Prof. Pilar Prieto (ICREA–UPF) and @juliafloritpons.bsky.social (UPF) in El Periódico to discuss how speech, gesture, and bodily expression are key to early language learning and inclusion, underscoring the central role of orality in education. ✨🧒

❗️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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Happy to share that one of the studies of my PhD is now published in the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology @ashajournals.bsky.social In this study, in collaboration with Pilar Prieto and Alfonso Igualada, we describe the co-creation of the MMN intervention pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/...

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-...

pubs.asha.org

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).

Excited to share that ISGS-Catalonia is now officially established! 🎉😁 This new hub of the International Society of Gesture Studies (ISGS), coordinated by a steering group from 5 Catalan universities, aims to promote gesture research locally and internationally. 🌍 (website coming soon!)

Today @joel-espejoalvarez.bsky.social and @janafolch.bsky.social presented about the cocreation and preliminary assessment of the MultiModal Narrative Newcomer intervention. A study in collaboration with @juliafloritpons.bsky.social, @ingridvilag.bsky.social, Mireia Gómez i Martínez and Pilar Prieto

Happy to share that our new paper showing that children’s multimodal skills are predictive of concurrent narrative and pragmatic skills has been published in Child Development. Check it out! 👇🏼

Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G)@grepgupf.bsky.social · last yr.

❗️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 📝 Multimodal Skills, but Not Motor Skills, Predict Narrative and Expressive Pragmatic Skills in Children With Typical Development and Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Today @juliafloritpons.bsky.social presented the Multimodal Narrative Intervention in the II Jornada d'Educació Lingüística Basada en l'Evidència Científica

Yesterday @juliafloritpons.bsky.social defended her PhD thesis about the development and evaluation of the MultiModal Narrative Intervention to enhance children’s oral narrative skills, co-supervised by Dr. Pilar Prieto & Dr. Alfonso Igualada

👋 Welcome to the official Bluesky account of the Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (Grup d'Estudis de Prosòdia i Gestualitat, GrEP-G), #TraduccióUPF, @upf.edu 👉 Follow us to keep up to date on our research!

Is a full-fledged implementation of the multimodal narrative (MMN) program in Catalan feasible? Can it improve children's narrative & pragmatic skills in both clinical and educational contexts? #LSHSS study says yes. pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/... @JuliaFloritPons @SIGPerspectives

Evaluating the Feasibility and Preliminary Effectiveness of a Multi-Tiered Multimodal Narrative Intervention Program for Preschool Children

Purpose: The present study aims to evaluate the feasibility and preliminary effectiveness of a novel multi-tiered narrative intervention program—...

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One of the studies of my PhD thesis has been published in Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools #LSHSS. We show that the MultiModal Narrative (MMN) intervention is feasible and preliminarily effective to boost the narrative abilities of children with TD and NDD. doi.org/10.1044/2024...

Evaluating the Feasibility and Preliminary Effectiveness of a Multi-Tiered Multimodal Narrative Intervention Program for Preschool Children

Purpose: The present study aims to evaluate the feasibility and preliminary effectiveness of a novel multi-tiered narrative intervention program—...

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