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2026 (4)

Florit-Pons J; Prieto P; Igualada A. An Individualized Multimodal Narrative Intervention for Young Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders. Early Childhood Education Journal 2026; : .

Zhang, Yuan; Baills, Florence; Prieto Vives, Pilar, 1965-. Embodied music training can help improve speech imitation and pronunciation skills. Language Teaching 2026; 59(2): 235-257.

Esteve-Gibert N; Prieto P; Shattuck-Hufnagel S. Introduction to the special issue 'Multimodal prosody: prosody in the spoken and visual domains'. Language and Cognition 2026; 18: .

Florit-Pons J.; Pronina M.; Coego S.; Prieto P.. Multimodal imitation reveals differences in typically developing children and children with neurodevelopmental disorders. Cognitive Development 2026; 77: .

2025 (9)

Esteve-Gibert N.; Shattuck-Hufnagel S.; Prieto P.. How a modality-neutral prosodic dimension can enrich the multimodal language acquisition framework: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer and Özyürek. First Language 2025; : .

Florit-Pons J.; Prieto P.; Igualada A.. Co-Creation of a Multi-Tiered Narrative Intervention Program for Speech-Language Pathology and Educational Settings. American journal of speech-language pathology 2025; : 1-21.

Yao T.; Xi X.; Prieto P.. The effects of oral narrative interventions on second language learning: A systematic review and meta-analysis. System 2025; 134: .

Coego S.; Esteve-Gibert N.; Prieto P.. Preschoolers Mark Focus Types Through Multimodal Prominence: Further Evidence for the Precursor Role of Gestures. Languages 2025; 10(5): .

Florit-Pons, Júlia; Igualada Pérez, Alfonso; Prieto Vives, Pilar, 1965-. Evaluating the feasibility and preliminary effectiveness of a multi-tiered multimodal narrative intervention program for preschool children. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools 2025; 56(1): 17-41.

Rohrer, Patrick Louis; Tütüncübasi, Ulya; Florit-Pons, Júlia; Vilà-Giménez, Ingrid; Esteve-Gibert, Núria; Ren-Mitchell, Ada; Shattuck-Hufnagel, Stefanie; Prieto Vives, Pilar, 1965-. Multidimensional labeling of gesture in communication: the M3D proposal. Corpus Pragmatics 2025; 9(4): 411-433.

Llompart M.; Gorba C.; Prieto P.. Revisiting the link between second-language sound identification and word recognition with an eye on methodological similarity. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 2025; 0(0): .

Prieto Vives, Pilar, 1965-; Esteve-Gibert, Núria; Shattuck-Hufnagel, Stefanie. Towards a novel conceptualization of prosody that accounts for spoken and visual signals: the modality-neutral prosodic framework hypothesis. Gesture 2025; 23(1-2): 119-159.

Prieto Vives, Pilar, 1965-; Pérez-Vidal, Carmen; Kushch, Olga; Borràs-Comes, Joan; Gluhareva, Daria. Training ESL students to reproduce beat gestures in discourse leads to L2 pronunciation improvements. Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca Julio de Urquijo: International Journal of Basque Linguistics and Philology 2025; 57(1-2): 805-823.

2024 (2)

Henlein A, Bauer A, Bhattacharjee R, Cwiek A, Gregori A, Kugler F, Lemanski J, Lucking A, Mehler A, Prieto P, Sanchez-Ramon PG, Schepens J, Schulte-Ruther M, Schweinberger SR, von Eiff CI. An Outlook for AI Innovation in Multimodal Communication Research. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2024; 14711 LNCS: 182-234.

Xi X, Li P, Prieto P. Improving Second Language Vowel Production With Hand Gestures Encoding Visible Articulation: Evidence From Picture-Naming and Paragraph-Reading Tasks. Language Learning 2024; 74(4): 884-916.

2023 (13)

Li P.; Baills F.; Alazard-Guiu C.; Baque L.; Prieto P.. A pedagogical note on teaching L2 prosody and speech sounds using hand gestures. Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 2023; 9(3): 340-349.

Li P.; Baills F.; Baque L.; Prieto P.. The effectiveness of embodied prosodic training in L2 accentedness and vowel accuracy. Second Language Research 2023; 39(4): 1077-1105.

Florit-Pons J.; Vila-Gimenez I.; Rohrer P.L.; Prieto P.. Multimodal development in children's narrative speech: Evidence for tight gesture-speech temporal alignment patterns as early as 5 years old. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 2023; 66(3): 888-900.

Gregori A.; Amici F.; Brilmayer I.; ¿wiek A.; Fritzsche L.; Fuchs S.; Henlein A.; Herbort O.; Kugler F.; Lemanski J.; Liebal K.; Lucking A.; Mehler A.; Nguyen K.T.; Pouw W.; Prieto P.; Rohrer P.L.; Sanchez-Ramon P.G.; Schulte-Ruther M.; Schumacher P.B.; Schweinberger S.R.; Struckmeier V.; Trettenbrein P.C.; von Eiff C.I.. A Roadmap for Technological Innovation in Multimodal Communication Research. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2023; 14029(0): 402-438.

Baills F, Prieto P. Embodying rhythmic properties of a foreign language through handclapping help children to better pronounce words. Language Teaching Research 2023; 27(6): 1576-1606.

Valls-Rates I, Niebuhr O, Prieto P. Encouraging participant embodiment during VR-assisted public speaking training improves persuasiveness and charisma and reduces anxiety in secondary school students. Frontiers in Virtual Reality 2023; 4: 1-18.

Pronina M, Prieto P, Bischetti L, Bambini V. Expressive Pragmatics and Prosody in Young Preschoolers are More Closely Related to Structural Language than to Mentalizing. Language Learning and Development 2023; 19(3): 323-344.

Li P, Zhang Y, Baills F, Prieto P. Musical perception skills predict speech imitation skills: Differences between speakers of tone and intonation languages. Language and Cognition 2023; : 1-19.

Pronina M, Grofulovic J, Castillo E, Prieto P, Igualada A. Narrative Abilities at Age 3 Are Associated Positively With Gesture Accuracy but Negatively With Gesture Rate. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 2023; 66(3): 951-965.

Castillo E, Pronina M, Hubscher I, Prieto P. Narrative Performance and Sociopragmatic Abilities in Preschool Children are Linked to Multimodal Imitation Skills. Journal of Child Language 2023; 50(1): 52-77.

Zhang Y, Baills F, Prieto P. Singing Songs Facilitates L2 Pronunciation and Vocabulary Learning: A Study with Chinese Adolescent ESL Learners. Languages 2023; 8(3): .

Ozakin AS, Xi X, Li P, Prieto P. Thanks or tanks: Training with tactile cues improves learners' accuracy of English interdental consonants in an oral reading task. Language Learning and Development 2023; 19(4): 404-419.

Rohrer, Patrick Louis; Delais-Roussarie, Elisabeth; Prieto Vives, Pilar, 1965-. Visualizing prosodic structure: manual gestures as highlighters of prosodic heads and edges in English academic discourses. Lingua 2023; 293: .

2022 (12)

Baills F.; Santiago F.; Mairano P.; Prieto P.. The effects of prosodic training with logatomes and prosodic gestures on L2 spontaneous speech. Speech Prosody 2022; 2022(163): 802-806.

Rohrer PL, Florit-Pons J, Vila-Gimenez I, Prieto P. Children Use Non-referential Gestures in Narrative Speech to Mark Discourse Elements Which Update Common Ground. Frontiers in Psychology 2022; 12: .

Baills F, Prieto P. Els beneficis de la música en l'aprenentatge fonològic d'una llengua estrangera. Llengua, societat i comunicació 2022; (20): 35-47.

Baills F, Alazard-Guiu C, Prieto P. Embodied Prosodic Training Helps Improve Accentedness and Suprasegmental Accuracy. Applied Linguistics 2022; 43(4): 776-804.

Baills F, Rohrer PL, Prieto P. Le geste et la voix pour enseigner la prononciation en langue etrangere. Mélanges CRAPEL 2022; 43(1): .

Li P.; Zhang Y.; Fu X.; Baills F.; Prieto P.. Melodic perception skills predict Catalan speakers' speech imitation abilities of unfamiliar languages. Speech Prosody 2022; 2022(178): 876-880.

Hübscher I, Sánchez-Conde C, Borràs-Comes J, Vincze L, Prieto P. Multimodal mitigation: how facial and body cues index politeness in Catalan requests. Journal of Politeness Research 2022; 19(1): 1-29.

Pronina M.; Hubscher I.; Vila-Gimenez I.; Prieto P.. Pragmatic prosody development from 3 to 8 years of age: A cross-sectional study in Catalan. Speech Prosody 2022; 2022(19): 92-96.

Muñoz-Coego S.; Florit-Pons J.; Rohrer P.L.; Vila-Gimenez I.; Prieto P.. The prosodic and gestural marking of the information status of referents in children's narrative speech: A longitudinal study. Speech Prosody 2022; 2022(82): 401-405.

Zhang Y.; Baills F.; Prieto P.. Training with embodied musical activities has positive effects on unfamiliar language imitation skills. Speech Prosody 2022; 2022(147): 723-727.

Valls-Rates I, Niebuhr O, Prieto P. Unguided virtual-reality training can enhance the oral presentation skills of high-school students. Frontiers in Communication 2022; 7: .

Valls-Rates I.; Niebuhr O.; Prieto P.. Unguided VR public-speaking training enhances your confidence - but does not improve your intonation. Speech Prosody 2022; 2022(33): 160-164.

2021 (9)

Baills F.; Zhang Y.; Cheng Y.; Bu Y.; Prieto P.. Listening to songs and singing benefit initial stages of L2 pronunciation. Language Learning Journal 2021; 71(2): 369-413.

Pronina M, Hübscher I, Vilà-Giménez I, Prieto P. Bridging the Gap Between Prosody and Pragmatics: The Acquisition of Pragmatic Prosody in the Preschool Years and Its Relation With Theory of Mind. Frontiers in Psychology 2021; 12(662124): .

Cravotta A, Prieto P, Busà MG. Exploring the effects of restraining the use of gestures on narrative speech. Speech communication : a publication of EURASIP 2021; 135: 25-36.

Pronina M, Hübscher I, Holler J, Prieto P. Interactional training interventions boost children's expressive pragmatic abilities: evidence from a novel multidimensional testing approach. Cognitive Development 2021; 57: .

Winter, Bodo; Oh, Grace Eunhae; Hübscher, Iris; Idemaru, Kaori; Brown, Lucien; Prieto Vives, Pilar, 1965-; Grawunder, Sven. Rethinking the frequency code: a meta-analytic review of the role of acoustic body size in communicative phenomena. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 2021; 376(1840): .

Prieto P, Roseano P. The encoding of epistemic operations in two Romance languages: The interplay between intonation and discourse markers. Journal of Pragmatics 2021; 172: 146-163.

Vilà-Giménez I, Dowling N, Demir-Lira OE, Prieto P, Goldin-Meadow S. The Predictive Value of Non-Referential Beat Gestures: Early Use in Parent-Child Interactions Predicts Narrative Abilities at 5 Years of Age. Child development 2021; 92(6): 2335-2355.

Vilà-Giménez I, Prieto P. The Value of Non-Referential Gestures: A Systematic Review of Their Cognitive and Linguistic Effects in Children's Language Development. Children 2021; 8(2): .

Li P.; Xi X.; Baills F.; Prieto P.. Training non-native aspirated plosives with hand gestures: learners' gesture performance matters. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 2021; 36(10): 1313-1328.

2020 (6)

Li P.; Baills F.; Prieto P.. Observing and producing durational hand gestures facilitates the pronunciation of novel vowel length contrasts. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 2020; 42(5): 1015-1039.

Xi X.; Li P.; Baills F.; Prieto P.. Hand gestures facilitate the acquisition of novel phonemic contrasts when they appropriately mimic target phonetic features. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 2020; 63(11): 3571-3585.

Zhang Y.; Baills F.; Prieto P.. Hand-clapping to the rhythm of newly learned words improves L2 pronunciation: Evidence from training Chinese adolescents with French words. Language Teaching Research 2020; 24(5): 666-689.

Rohrer PL, Delais-Roussarie E, Prieto P. Beat gestures for comprehension and recall: differential effects of language learners and native listeners. Frontiers in Psychology 2020; 11(575929): 1-16.

Vilà-Giménez, I;Prieto, P. Encouraging kids to beat: Children's beat gesture production boosts their narrative performance. Developmental Science 2020; : .

Hübscher I, Wagner L, Prieto P. Three-year-olds infer polite stance from intonation and facial cues. Journal of Politeness Research 2020; 16(1): 85-110.

2019 (11)

Baills F.; Suarez-Gonzalez N.; Gonzalez-Fuente S.; Prieto P.. Observing and producing pitch gestures facilitate the learning of Mandarin Chinese tones and words. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 2019; 41(1): 33-58.

Yuan C.; Gonzalez-Fuente S.; Baills F.; Prieto P.. Observing pitch gestures favors the learning of Spanish intonation by Mandarin speakers. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 2019; 41(1): 5-32.

Hübscher, Iris; Vincze, Laura; Prieto, Pilar. Children's signaling of their uncertain knowledge state: prosody, face and body cues come first. Language Learning and Development 2019; 15(4): 366-389.

Cravotta, Alice; Busà, M Grazia; Prieto, Pilar. Effects of encouraging the use of gestures on speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 2019; 62(9): 3204-3219.

Esteve, Núria; Igualada Alfonso; Prieto, Pilar. El gest com a facilitador i precursor del desenvolupament del llenguatge. Llengua, societat i comunicació 2019; (17): 26-41.

Borràs, Joan; Kiagia, Evangelia; Prieto, Pilar. Epistemic intonation and epistemic gesture are mutually co-expressive: Empirical results from two intonation-gesture matching tasks. Journal of Pragmatics 2019; (150): 39-52.

Hübscher, Iris; Prieto, Pilar. Gestural and Prosodic Development Act as Sister Systems and Jointly Pave the Way for Children's Sociopragmatic Development. Frontiers in Psychology 2019; 10: .

Van Maastricht, Lieke; Krahmer, Emiel; Swerts, Marc; Prieto, Pilar. Learning direction matters: A study on L2 rhythm acquisition by Dutch learners of Spanish and Spanish learners of Dutch. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 2019; 41(1): 87-121.

Prieto Vives, Pilar; Vilà-Giménez, Ingrid; Igualada, Alfonso. Observing storytellers who use rhythmic beat gestures improves children's narrative discourse performance. Developmental psychology 2019; 55(2): 252-262.

Hübscher, Iris; Garufi, Martina; Prieto, Pilar. The development of polite stance in preschoolers: how prosody, gesture and body cues pave the way. Journal of Child Language 2019; 46(5): 825-862.

Vilà-Giménez, Ingrid; Igualada, Alfonso; Prieto, Pilar. Training with rhythmic beat gestures improves children's narrative discourse skills. Developmental psychology 2019; 55(2): 250-262.

2018 (9)

Llanes-Coromina, Judith; Vilà-Giménez, Ingrid; Kushch, Olga; Borràs-Comes, Joan; Prieto, Pilar. Beat gestures help preschoolers recall and comprehend discourse information. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 2018; 172(8): 168-188.

Llanes-Coromina J, Prieto P, Rohrer P. Brief training with rhythmic beat gestures helps L2 pronunciation in a reading aloud task. Speech Prosody 2018; : 498-502.

Prieto P, Cravotta A, Kushch O, Rohrer P, Vilà-Giménez I. Deconstructing beat gestures: a labelling proposal. Speech Prosody 2018; : 201-205.

Armstrong, M., Esteve Gibert, N., Hübscher, I., Igualada, A., Prieto, P. Developmental and cognitive aspects of children's disbelief comprehension through intonation and facial gesture. First Language 2018; 38(6): 596-616.

Vilà-Giménez I, Prieto P. Encouraging children to produce rhythmic beat gestures leads to better narrative discourse performances. Speech Prosody 2018; : 704-708.

Baills F, Zhang Y, Prieto P. Hand-clapping to the rhythm of newly learned words improves L2 pronunciation: Evidence from Catalan and Chinese learners of French. Speech Prosody 2018; : 853-857.

Hübscher I, Garufi M, Prieto P. Preschoolers use prosodic mitigation strategies to encode polite stance. Speech Prosody 2018; : 255-259.

Kushch, O.; Igualada, A.; Prieto, P. Prominence in speech and gesture favour second language novel word learning. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 2018; 33(8): 992-1004.

Cravotta A, Grazia Busà M, Prieto P. Restraining and encouraging the use of hand gestures: Effects on speech. Speech Prosody 2018; : 206-210.

2017 (9)

Rodero E.; Potter R.F.; Prieto P.. Pitch range variations improve cognitive processing of audio messages. Human Communication Research 2017; 43(3): 397-413.

Prieto Vives, Pilar; Igualada Pérez, Alfonso; Esteve Gibert, Núria. Beat gestures improve word recall in 3- to 5-year-old children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 2017; 156: 99-112.

Vanrell MM, Armstrong, M,Prieto P. Experimental evidence for the role of intonation in evidential marking. Language and Speech 2017; 60(2): 242-259.

Prieto Vives, Pilar; Hübscher, Iris; Esteve-Gibert, Núria; Igualada, Alfonso. Intonation and gesture as bootstrapping devices in speaker uncertainty. First Language 2017; 37(1): 24-41.

Prieto P, Escandell-Vidal V. Introduction to the Special Section: Intonational constraints on pragmatic inferences. Language and Speech 2017; 60(2): 171-173.

Hübscher I, Borràs-Comes J, Prieto P. Prosodic mitigation characterizes Catalan formal speech: The Frequency Code reassessed. Journal of Phonetics 2017; (65): 145-159.

Esteve-Gibert, Núria; Borràs Comes, Joan Manel; Asor, Eli; Swerts, Marc; Prieto Vives, Pilar. The Timing of head movements: the role of prosodic heads and edges. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2017; 141(6): 4727-4739.

Gluhareva, Daria; Prieto Vives, Pilar. Training with rhythmic beat gestures benefits L2 pronunciation in discourse-demanding situations. Language Teaching Research 2017; 21(5): 609-631.

Prieto Vives, Pilar; Esteve Gibert, Núria; Liszkowski, Ulf. Twelve-month-olds understand social intentions based on prosody and gesture shape. Infancy 2017; 22(1): 108-129.

2016 (10)

González-Fuente S, Prieto P, Noveck I. A fine-grained analysis of the acoustic cues involved in verbal irony recognition in French. Speech Prosody 2016; : 902-906.

Armstrong ME, Andreu L, Esteve Gibert N, Prieto Vives P. Children's processing of morphosyntactic and prosodic cues in overriding context-based hypotheses: an eye tracking study. Probus: An International Journal of Latin Linguistics and Romance 2016; 28(1): 57-90.

Roseano, Paolo; González Condom, Montserrat; Borràs Comes, Joan Manel; Prieto Vives, Pilar. Communicating epistemic stance: How speech and gesture patterns reflect epistemicity and evidentiality. Discourse Processes 2016; 53(3): 135-174.

Li F, González-Fuente S, Prieto P, Espinal MT. Is Mandarin Chinese a truth-based language? Rejecting responses to negative propositions. Frontiers in Psychology 2016; 7: .

Rodero Antón E, Larrea O, Mas Ll, Prieto P. Media Psychology y su aproximación a la psicofisiología: una disciplina para analizar los procesos mediáticos. Anuario Electronico de Estudios en Comunicacion Social Disertaciones 2016; 9(2): 163-180.

Kushch O, Prieto P. The Effects of pitch accentuation and beat gestures on information recall in contrastive discourse. Speech Prosody 2016; : 922-925.

Prieto P, Roseano P. The Encoding of epistemic operations in two Romance languages: intonation and pragmatic markers. Speech Prosody 2016; : 888-892.

Hualde JI, Prieto P. Towards an International Prosodic Alphabet. Laboratory Phonology 2016; 7(1): 1-25.

Hualde JI, Prieto P. Towards an International Prosodic Alphabet (IPrA). Laboratory Phonology 2016; 7(1): 1-25.

Hübscher I, Wagner L, Prieto P. Young children's sensitivity to polite stance expressed through audiovisual prosody in requests. Speech Prosody 2016; : 897-902.

2015 (10)

Espinal, M. T., Tubau, S., Borràs-Comes, J., Prieto, P. Double Negation in Catalan and Spanish. Interaction between Syntax and Prosody. Language 2015; 1: 145-176.

Prieto P.; Puglesi C.; Borras-Comes J.; Arroyo E.; Blat J. Exploring the contribution of prosody and gesture to the perception of focus using an animated agent. Journal of Phonetics 2015; 49(1): 41-54.

González-Fuente, S.; Escandell-Vidal, V.; Prieto, P. Gestural codas pave the way to the understanding of verbal irony. Journal of Pragmatics 2015; (90): 26-47.

Prieto, P. Intonational meaning. Cognitive science 2015; (6): 371-381.

González-Fuentes, S.; Tubau, S.; Espinal, M.T.; Prieto, P. Is there a universal answering strategy for rejecting negative propositions? Typological evidence on the use of prosody and gesture. Frontiers in Psychology 2015; 6(899): 1-17.

Igualada, A.; Bosch, L.; Prieto, P. Language development at 18 months is related to multimodal communicative strategies at 12 months. Infant Behavior and Development 2015; (39): 42-52.