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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 🌐 www.upf.edu/web/grepg

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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yesterday Seyda Özçalışkan from Georgia State University presented her study on gesturing with vs. without vision when speaking and when not speaking
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Facultat de Traducció i Ciències del Llenguatge de la UPF @traduccioupf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Seminari organitzat pel @grepgupf.bsky.social «Gesturing with vs. without vision when speaking and when not speaking. Do constraints on modality of expression matter?»: 📆 1/10/2026 🕦 12.30 h. 🎤Seyda Özçalışkan (Georgia State University) 🚩 aula 52.737 C. Poblenou i en línia ℹ️ tuit.cat/8kvk6
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1/10/2026 Seminari organitzat pel GrEPG (Grup d'Estudis de Prosòdia i Gestualitat)(URLing) a càrrec de Seyda Özçalışkan (Georgia State University)
'Gesturing with vs. without vision when speaking and when not speaking. Do constraints on modality of expression matter?' a càrrec de Seyda Özçalışkan (Georgia State University)
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Yesterday @saracoegom.bsky.social defended her PhD thesis entitled “A multimodal pathway to pragmatic development: prosody and gesture in preschool children’s marking of focus types”,supervised by Dr. Pilar Prieto. Congratulations Dr. Coego!
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Facultat de Traducció i Ciències del Llenguatge de la UPF @traduccioupf.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Seminari organitzat pel @grepgupf.bsky.social «Multimodal Pathways to Pragmatics: The Development of Prosody and Gesture in Infancy and Early Childhood»: 📆 18/09/2026 🕦 14.00 - 15.30 h. 🎤 Dr. S. Frota, Dr. A. Chen i Dr. G. Ambrazaitis 🚩 aula 55.410 C. Poblenou i en línia ℹ️ tuit.cat/dzwco
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18/09/2026 Seminari organitzat pel GrEPG (Grup d'Estudis de Prosòdia i Gestualitat) a càrrec de Dr. Sónia Frota, Dr. Aoju Chen i Dr. Gilbert Ambrazaitis
'Multimodal Pathways to Pragmatics: The Development of Prosody and Gesture in Infancy and Early Childhood' a càrrec de Dr. Sónia Frota (University of Lisbon), Dr. Aoju Chen (Utrecht University) i Dr. ...
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
We are in the 17th Workshop on Catalan Prosody, Orality, and Gesture!
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Universitat Pompeu Fabra @upf.edu · 03/07/2026
#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
Tres projectes de recerca punters de la UPF reben un total de 7,2 milions d’euros dels ajuts ERC Advanced Grant.
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
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!
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
We are in the 2nd ELLRA Conference!
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
This afternoon Marlene Castellanos presented the research plan of her PhD thesis on the multimodal pragmatic development in infants and toddlers
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
This afternoon Xue Meng presented the research plan of her PhD thesis on the second language acquisition of prosody by Chinese learners of English
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Today Bryan Gick (Haskins laboratories) presented "The atoms of embodied communication"
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Avui i demà som a les XXIX Jornades Interuniversitàries de Recerca en Didàctica de la Llengua i la Literatura
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
❗️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...
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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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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
❗️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...
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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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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
❗️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...
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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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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
❗️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
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
❗️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...
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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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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
We are in the UR-Ling Workshop 2025! #urling
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
🎓 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
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
❗️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
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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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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
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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ISGS Catalonia Hub @isgscatalonia.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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).
Poster announcing an online talk by Prof. Sotaro Kita of the University of Warwick taking place on Friday 26th September at 12:30pm (GMT+2). The title of the talk is Gesture, Language, and Thought. It is part of the online lecture series organised by ISGS Catalonia a hub of the International Society for Gesture Studies. The talk is hosted by the Prosody and Gesture Study Group at University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona and is also broadcasted online. Registration is possible by clicking on a link in the post.
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Today Pamela Urra from Universidad Católica de Chile presented the development, evaluation and optimization of the app "Cuenta Conmigo"
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
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!
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
❗️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
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
❗️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...
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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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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
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
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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 👏👏
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Today @juliafloritpons.bsky.social presented the Multimodal Narrative Intervention in the II Jornada d'Educació Lingüística Basada en l'Evidència Científica
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
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
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
This afternoon Jana Folch-Claramunt presented the research plan of her PhD thesis on a Multimodal Narrative intervention to support newcomer children in Catalonia
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
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).
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ISGS2025 @isgs2025.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
🎉 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...
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
❗️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...
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
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
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
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.
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
@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
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Judith Holler @judithholler.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Early bird registration and pre-conference workshop registrations now open! www.isgs10.nl
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10th Conference of the ISGS 9-11 July 2025 Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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.
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Today, @florencebaills.bsky.social and Pilar Prieto have presented about embodied prosody in second language learning at the ISGS Hong Kong seminar series
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
👋 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!
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