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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
We would like to thank Dr. Sónia Frota, Dr. Aoju Chen and Dr. Gilbert Ambrazaitis for having been part of the PhD evaluation committee
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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
@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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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 · 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 · 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
@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 · 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 · 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 · 21/07/2025
📕 Child Development 👥 @juliafloritpons.bsky.social, Mariia Pronina, Alfonso Igualada, Pilar Prieto, Courtenay Norbury 🔗 srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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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 · 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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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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