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lisbonbabylab.bsky.social @lisbonbabylab.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Opportunity to join our team: PhD fellowship. Application deadline: April 24, 2026. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/426755

Júlia Florit-Pons, PhD @juliafloritpons.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Our new paper is out! 🚀 This paper, published in Early Childhood Education Journal, examines the effectiveness of an individualized multimodal narrative intervention for boosting children's oral narrative abilities. Check it out! 👇

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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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Júlia Florit-Pons, PhD @juliafloritpons.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Check out our new paper about children’s multimodal imitation, which has been published in the special issue “Multimodal language, communication and thinking” (eds. @tilbegoksun.bsky.social @ecedemirlira.bsky.social) in Cognitive Development

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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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Comparative Minds Research Group @comparative-minds.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

🗣️👋 Our member @ingridvilag.bsky.social joined Prof. Pilar Prieto (ICREA–UPF) and @juliafloritpons.bsky.social (UPF) in El Periódico to discuss how speech, gesture, and bodily expression are key to early language learning and inclusion, underscoring the central role of orality in education. ✨🧒

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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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Júlia Florit-Pons, PhD @juliafloritpons.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Happy to share that one of the studies of my PhD is now published in the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology @ashajournals.bsky.social In this study, in collaboration with Pilar Prieto and Alfonso Igualada, we describe the co-creation of the MMN intervention pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/...

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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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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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Ingrid Vilà-Giménez @ingridvilag.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Excited to share that ISGS-Catalonia is now officially established! 🎉😁 This new hub of the International Society of Gesture Studies (ISGS), coordinated by a steering group from 5 Catalan universities, aims to promote gesture research locally and internationally. 🌍 (website coming soon!)

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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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Júlia Florit-Pons, PhD @juliafloritpons.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Happy to share that our new paper showing that children’s multimodal skills are predictive of concurrent narrative and pragmatic skills has been published in Child Development. Check it out! 👇🏼

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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 · 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 · 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 · 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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ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Is a full-fledged implementation of the multimodal narrative (MMN) program in Catalan feasible? Can it improve children's narrative & pragmatic skills in both clinical and educational contexts? #LSHSS study says yes. pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/... @JuliaFloritPons @SIGPerspectives

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Evaluating the Feasibility and Preliminary Effectiveness of a Multi-Tiered Multimodal Narrative Intervention Program for Preschool Children

Purpose: The present study aims to evaluate the feasibility and preliminary effectiveness of a novel multi-tiered narrative intervention program—...

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Júlia Florit-Pons, PhD @juliafloritpons.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

One of the studies of my PhD thesis has been published in Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools #LSHSS. We show that the MultiModal Narrative (MMN) intervention is feasible and preliminarily effective to boost the narrative abilities of children with TD and NDD. doi.org/10.1044/2024...

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Evaluating the Feasibility and Preliminary Effectiveness of a Multi-Tiered Multimodal Narrative Intervention Program for Preschool Children

Purpose: The present study aims to evaluate the feasibility and preliminary effectiveness of a novel multi-tiered narrative intervention program—...

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