Igualada Pérez, Alfonso (Date of defense: 2017-03-27)
In everyday interactions, speakers integrate gestures and speech sounds at a temporal level. One of the linguistic functions of temporally synchronous gesture-speech combinations is to provide prominence ...
Rohrer, Patrick Louis (Date of defense: 2022-12-16)
Human language is essentially multimodal in that speakers use multiple channels to convey meaning, including speech prosody and gesture (e.g. Mondada, 2016; Perniss, 2018). In the last decades, studies ...
Crespo Sendra, Verònica (Date of defense: 2011-10-10)
El propòsit d’aquesta tesi doctoral és aprofundir en l’estudi de la fonologia entonativa dialectal del català a partir de l’anàlisi experimental de diferents tipus de modalitats oracionals. Així doncs, ...
Borràs Comes, Joan Manel (Date of defense: 2012-11-29)
This thesis investigates the role that different aspects of audiovisual prosody play in the production and perception of interrogativity. To this end, two types of statements and two types of questions ...
Kushch, Olga (Date of defense: 2018-03-09)
Previous research has shown that gestures are beneficial for language learning. This doctoral thesis centers on the effects of beat gestures– i.e., hand and arm gestures that are typically associated ...
Baills, Florence (Date of defense: 2022-01-21)
Prosodic features of language such as prominence, melody, and rhythm, are frequently embodied by hand movements in face-to-face communication. However, little is known on the role of embodied techniques ...
Valls-Ratés, Ïo (Date of defense: 2023-05-05)
Training adolescent students to speak in public is crucial for the development of their oral competence but also beneficial for their social abilities, as it empowers them to engage in learning opportunities ...
Vilà-Giménez, Ingrid (Date of defense: 2020-06-30)
Co-speech gestures are children’s first path towards communication. Further in development, research has primarily focused on the role of iconic gestures in boosting children’s narrative abilities, ...
Esteve Gibert, Núria (Date of defense: 2014-09-12)
This dissertation comprises four experimental studies which investigate the way infants integrate prosody and gesture for intentional communicative purposes. As adult speakers we automatically integrate ...
Hübscher, Iris (Date of defense: 2018-06-27)
While previous research on language development has highlighted the facilitating role of gesture (mainly deictic gesture) in children’s early access to meaning, little is known about the possible ...