Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G)
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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
🎓 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
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 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 @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
@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
@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
@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
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
@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
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
July 11, 2025 at 2:19 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
July 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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
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
❗️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
Now it is our turn! @juliafloritpons.bsky.social, @ting-yao.bsky.social, @joel-espejoalvarez.bsky.social and Jana Folch-Claramunt are presentating about the different versions of the MultiModal Narrative interventiom for preschoolers, newcomers and English learners
April 10, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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
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