The works presented below are research projects carried out within the master’s program, either as part of coursework or as master’s theses (TFM), which have been published in journals or presented at academic conferences.

Lysova, I., Ahmed, L., Cunningham, B., Huang Y., & Wiltschko M. (2025). Do chatbots dream of AI sheep? A semantic–pragmatic investigation of "naturalness" in human–AI interaction. AI & Society. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-025-02595-1.

Castillo, E., Pronina, M., Hübscher, I., & Prieto, P. (2023). Narrative performance and sociopragmatic abilities in preschool children are linked to multimodal imitation skills. Journal of Child Language, 50(2), 52–77. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000921000404.

Florit-Pons, M., Rohrer, P., Vilà-Giménez, I., & Prieto, P. (2023). Multimodal development in children's narrative speech: A longitudinal study of referential and temporal aspects of co-speech gesture. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 66(3), 888–900. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00451.

He, Y., Liao, X., Liang, J., & Boleda, G. (2023). The impact of familiarity on naming variation: A study on object naming in Mandarin Chinese. In Proceedings of the Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) (pp. 456–475).

Harrison, S., Gualdoni, E., & Boleda, G. (2023). Run like a girl! Sport-related gender bias in language and vision. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) (pp. 14093–14103).

Ozakin, A. S., Xi, X., Li, P., & Prieto, P. (2023). Thanks or tanks: A brief multisensory training with tactile cues facilitates the pronunciation of non-native English interdental consonants in a discourse reading task. Language Learning and Development, 19(4), 404–419. https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2022.2107522.

Pronina, M., Grofulovic, H., Castillo, E., Prieto, P., & Igualada, A. (2023). Narrative abilities at age 3 are associated positively with gesture accuracy but negatively with gesture rate. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 66(3), 951–965. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_JSLHR-21-00414.

Pitarch, L., & Brochhagen, T. (2022). How senses are grouped within word forms over time: An analysis of diachronic colexification patterns. In The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE).

Domínguez, M., Melero, M., & Boleda, G. (2022). CAT ManyNames: A new dataset for object naming in Catalan. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex-VII) (pp. 31–36).