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
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👋 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
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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
📝 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
January 21, 2026 at 8:39 AM
❗️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
📝 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
📕 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…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 14, 2026 at 7:48 AM
❗️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
📕 Cognitive Development
👥 @juliafloritpons.bsky.social, Mariia Pronina, @saracoegom.bsky.social and Pilar Prieto
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@ting-yao.bsky.social presented a study on how individual differences moderate L2 narrative succes. A study in collaboration with Joan Carles Mora and Pilar Prieto.
November 28, 2025 at 12:11 PM
@ting-yao.bsky.social presented a study on how individual differences moderate L2 narrative succes. A study in collaboration with Joan Carles Mora and Pilar Prieto.
🎓 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
🗣️🤝 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
November 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
🎓 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
🗣️🤝 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 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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September 29, 2025 at 7:25 AM
❗️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 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
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
September 26, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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
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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).
September 23, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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"
September 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Today Pamela Urra from Universidad Católica de Chile presented the development, evaluation and optimization of the app "Cuenta Conmigo"
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
September 4, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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
@saracoegom.bsky.social presented about how preschool children integrate prosody and gesture to convey pragmatic meaning. A study in collaboration with Núria Esteve-Gibert and Pilar Prieto
September 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
@saracoegom.bsky.social presented about how preschool children integrate prosody and gesture to convey pragmatic meaning. A study in collaboration with Núria Esteve-Gibert and Pilar Prieto
@jiali-li.bsky.social presented about the differences in gesture and speech between child-directed and adult-directed narratives. A study in collaboration with @ingridvilag.bsky.social, @saracoegom.bsky.social and Pilar Prieto.
September 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
@jiali-li.bsky.social presented about the differences in gesture and speech between child-directed and adult-directed narratives. A study in collaboration with @ingridvilag.bsky.social, @saracoegom.bsky.social and Pilar Prieto.
@ingridvilag.bsky.social presented about the impact of non-referential gesture production and observation in children's argumentative skills. A study in collaboration with Pilar Prieto and Thomas Castelain.
September 3, 2025 at 12:38 PM
@ingridvilag.bsky.social presented about the impact of non-referential gesture production and observation in children's argumentative skills. A study in collaboration with Pilar Prieto and Thomas Castelain.
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!
September 3, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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!
📕 Child Development
👥 @juliafloritpons.bsky.social, Mariia Pronina, Alfonso Igualada, Pilar Prieto, Courtenay Norbury
🔗 srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
👥 @juliafloritpons.bsky.social, Mariia Pronina, Alfonso Igualada, Pilar Prieto, Courtenay Norbury
🔗 srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 21, 2025 at 6:39 AM
📕 Child Development
👥 @juliafloritpons.bsky.social, Mariia Pronina, Alfonso Igualada, Pilar Prieto, Courtenay Norbury
🔗 srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
👥 @juliafloritpons.bsky.social, Mariia Pronina, Alfonso Igualada, Pilar Prieto, Courtenay Norbury
🔗 srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
❗️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
📝 Multimodal Skills, but Not Motor Skills, Predict Narrative and Expressive Pragmatic Skills in Children With Typical Development and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
July 21, 2025 at 6:38 AM
❗️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
📝 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: 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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July 21, 2025 at 6:31 AM
❗️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: The modality-neutral prosodic framework hypothesis
📕 Gesture
👥 Pilar Prieto, Núria Esteve-Gibert and Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel
🔗 www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...
@ting-yao.bsky.social presented a poster on the effectiveness of a multimodal narrative intervention on L2 narrative skills, a study in collaboration with Trina Spencer and Pilar Prieto
July 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
@ting-yao.bsky.social presented a poster on the effectiveness of a multimodal narrative intervention on L2 narrative skills, a study in collaboration with Trina Spencer and Pilar Prieto
We had two poster presentations!
@ingridvilag.bsky.social had a poster presentation about the influence of observing vs. producing non-referential gestures on children's argumentative abilities, a study in collaboration with Sandra Geladó, Pilar Prieto and Thomas Castelain
@ingridvilag.bsky.social had a poster presentation about the influence of observing vs. producing non-referential gestures on children's argumentative abilities, a study in collaboration with Sandra Geladó, Pilar Prieto and Thomas Castelain
July 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
We had two poster presentations!
@ingridvilag.bsky.social had a poster presentation about the influence of observing vs. producing non-referential gestures on children's argumentative abilities, a study in collaboration with Sandra Geladó, Pilar Prieto and Thomas Castelain
@ingridvilag.bsky.social had a poster presentation about the influence of observing vs. producing non-referential gestures on children's argumentative abilities, a study in collaboration with Sandra Geladó, Pilar Prieto and Thomas Castelain
@saracoegom.bsky.social has presented a study in collaboration with Núria Esteve-Gibert & Pilar Prieto on the multimodal expression of prominence: how children integrate prosody and gesture in marking focus types
July 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
@saracoegom.bsky.social has presented a study in collaboration with Núria Esteve-Gibert & Pilar Prieto on the multimodal expression of prominence: how children integrate prosody and gesture in marking focus types
Today Pilar Prieto organized a symposium on multimodal prosody across spoken and sign languages and presented a study in collaboration with Esteve-Gibert & Shattuck-Hufnagel "Multimodal prosody: Towards a modality-neutral conceptualization of prosody that includes spoken, visual and tactile signals"
July 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Today Pilar Prieto organized a symposium on multimodal prosody across spoken and sign languages and presented a study in collaboration with Esteve-Gibert & Shattuck-Hufnagel "Multimodal prosody: Towards a modality-neutral conceptualization of prosody that includes spoken, visual and tactile signals"
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
@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
July 10, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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
@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 👏👏
Congratulations 👏👏
July 2, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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 👏👏
Congratulations 👏👏
Today @juliafloritpons.bsky.social presented the Multimodal Narrative Intervention in the II Jornada d'Educació Lingüística Basada en l'Evidència Científica
June 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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
June 4, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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