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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G)

@grepgupf.bsky.social
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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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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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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
@paulagsanchezram.bsky.social presented her study on how corrective focus does not necessarily mean greater prominence, highlighting the effects of prosodic attenuation
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
@saracoegom.bsky.social presented her study on the expression of focus in children as a multimodal phenomenon, the coordination between prosodic and gestural magnitude
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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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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 · 05/06/2026
Today @janafolch.bsky.social presented a study on the language attitudes of recently arrived migrant primary-school students in Catalonia.
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Yesterday @janafolch.bsky.social and @joel-espejoalvarez.bsky.social presented a study on the benefits of cocreating an oral language intervention for newcomer primary school students and the asssessment of its acceptability, appropiateness, feasibility and percieved measures of learning.
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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 · 23/04/2026
Ahir en @joel-espejoalvarez.bsky.social va presentar un estudi que s'emmarca dins per projecte PREVENT-NI 📕Beneficis de la cocreació d’una intervenció lingüística en català: Desenvolupament i avaluació de la implementació de la intervenció Narrativa MultiModal - Nouvinguts
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Avui en @joel-espejoalvarez.bsky.social ha presentat un estudi de la seva tesi 📕 Impulsant el català a l’educació infantil: l’eficàcia d’una intervenció narrativa multimodal amb infants plurilingües
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
@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.
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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 · 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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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 · 04/09/2025
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
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
@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
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
@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.
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
@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.
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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 · 11/07/2025
@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
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
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
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
@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
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
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"
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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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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
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
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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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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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