Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G)

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-...

❗️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

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

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.

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).

Today Pamela Urra from Universidad Católica de Chile presented the development, evaluation and optimization of the app "Cuenta Conmigo"

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

@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

@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.

@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.

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!

📕 Child Development

👥 @juliafloritpons.bsky.social, Mariia Pronina, Alfonso Igualada, Pilar Prieto, Courtenay Norbury

🔗 srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

❗️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

❗️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...

@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

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

@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

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"

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

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 👏👏

Today @juliafloritpons.bsky.social presented the Multimodal Narrative Intervention in the II Jornada d'Educació Lingüística Basada en l'Evidència Científica

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

This afternoon Jana Folch-Claramunt presented the research plan of her PhD thesis on a Multimodal Narrative intervention to support newcomer children in Catalonia

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).

🎉 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...

❗️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...

We would like to thank Dr. Trina Spencer, Dr. Carina Lüke (@carinalueke.bsky.social) and Dr. Aoife Gallagher for having been part of the PhD evaluation committee

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

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

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.

@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

Early bird registration and pre-conference workshop registrations now open!
www.isgs10.nl