Principal Investigator
Pilar Prieto is an ICREA Research Professor at the Department of Translation and Language Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Catalunya. Her research focuses on the communicative role of prosody and gesture in language, as well as their significance in language development and second language learning. In the last years, she has worked on the multimodal marking of Information Structure, in both adult and children’s discourse. She currently serves as associate editor of the journals Language and Speech and Frontiers in Communication, and is coediting a special issue of the “Language and Cognition” journal on Multimodal Prosody.
About
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona
pilar.prieto@upf.edu
Selected Publications
Brown, Lucien & Pilar Prieto. 2021. Gesture and prosody in multimodal communication. In Michael Haugh, Dániel Z. Kádár & Marina Terkourafi (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics, 430–453. Cambridge: CUP.
Esteve-Gibert, Núria & Pilar Prieto. 2013. Prosodic structure shapes the temporal realization of intonation and manual gesture movements. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 56(3). 850-864.
Prieto, Pilar, C. Puglesi, J. Borràs-Comes, E. Arroyo & J. Blat. 2015. Exploring the contribution of prosody and gesture to the perception of focus using an animated agent. Journal of Phonetics 49(1). 41-54.
Rohrer, P., Florit-Pons, M., Vilà-Giménez, I., Prieto, P. (2022). “Children use non-referential gestures in narrative speech to mark discourse elements which update common ground.” Frontiers in Psychology 12:661339. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.661339
Vanrell, M.M., Stella, A., Gili-Fivela, B., & Prieto, P. (2013). Prosodic manifestations of the Effort Code in Catalan, Italian, and Spanish contrastive focus. Journal of the International Phonetics Association 43(2), pp.195-220.