Joel Espejo-Álvarez

🎓 Exciting #PhD opportunity!

🗣️🤝 Come work with us on Co-Speech Gestures and Prosody
🌍 Cotutelle between UPF Barcelona & Goethe Uni Frankfurt

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Please share or reach out if you’re interested! #PhDposition #Linguistics #Gestures #Prosody #Mutimodality

🗣️👋 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. ✨🧒

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

❗️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...

❗️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

Congrats, Teruni! 🎉💪

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

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