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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G)
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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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🎓 Exciting #PhD opportunity!

🗣️🤝 Come work with us on Co-Speech Gestures and Prosody
🌍 Cotutelle between UPF Barcelona & Goethe Uni Frankfurt

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Please share or reach out if you’re interested! #PhDposition #Linguistics #Gestures #Prosody #Mutimodality
November 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
❗️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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September 29, 2025 at 7:25 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
September 26, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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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
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
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
❗️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
July 21, 2025 at 6:38 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 | 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
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
July 10, 2025 at 11:07 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 👏👏
July 2, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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
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
This afternoon Jana Folch-Claramunt presented the research plan of her PhD thesis on a Multimodal Narrative intervention to support newcomer children in Catalonia
June 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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).
May 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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🎉 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...
April 28, 2025 at 8:33 AM
❗️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...
April 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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
April 12, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Today we are having a mini-workshop co-organized with the GRECIL group (UOC-UB) on language interventions.

First, Llorenç Andreu presents about the effects of the multi-tiered PREVENIR intervention program on the pre-literacy skills of children with DLD.
April 10, 2025 at 10:02 AM
@ting-yao.bsky.social presented today about the effects of a multimodal narrative intervention for enhancing L2 narrative production in high school, a study in collaboration with Trina Spencer and Pilar Prieto
April 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Early bird registration and pre-conference workshop registrations now open!
www.isgs10.nl
March 31, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Today, @jiali-li.bsky.social is presenting at the the International Workshop on Multimodal Language.
The study, in collaboration with @ingridvilag.bsky.social, Sara Coego and Pilar Prieto, investigates the differences in gesture and speech in child-directed and adult-directed speech in narratives.
March 13, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Today, @florencebaills.bsky.social and Pilar Prieto have presented about embodied prosody in second language learning at the ISGS Hong Kong seminar series
February 21, 2025 at 11:38 AM
👋 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!
February 20, 2025 at 9:22 AM