🎓 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

❗️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

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"

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!

❗️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...

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...

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

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

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.

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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