Presentations
Oral presentations
2024
Domingo-Moscardó, L., Florit-Pons, J., Prieto, P., & Igualada, A. (2024, July 15-19). Multimodal narrative perceptive assessment serve to identify language needs of children with NDD [Oral presentation]. 16th congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language. Charles University: Prague, Czech Republic.
Espejo-Álvarez, J., Florit-Pons, J., Luong, C.L., Gómez, M., Igualada, A., & Prieto, P. (2024, September 25-27). The impact of a multimodal oral narrative intervention on boosting the frequency of use and the quality of children’s non-dominant language [Oral presentation]. 2nd International MultiModal Communication Symposium. Goethe Universität Frankfurt: Frankfurt, Germany.
Florit-Pons, J., Pronina, M., Coego, S., & Prieto, P. (2024, September 6). El desenvolupament de l’habilitat d’imitació multimodal: un estudi comparatiu amb nens amb desenvolupament típic i nens amb trastorns del neurodesenvolupament [Oral presentation]. XVè Workshop sobre la prosòdia del català. Universitat de les Illes Balears: Palma, Spain.
Florit-Pons, J., Pronina, M., Igualada, A., Prieto, P., & Norbury, C. (2024, July 15-19). Multimodal skills but not motor skills predict language skills in neurotypical and clinical children [Oral presentation]. 16th congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language. Charles University: Prague, Czech Republic.
Pronina, M., Bambini, V., Bischetti, L., Ahufinger, N. Del Sette, P., Esteve-Gibert, N., Florit-Pons, J., Lecce, S., & Prieto, P. (2024, July 9-11). Different linguistic and socio-cognitive predictors of pragmatics across modalities in 5–6-year-olds [Oral presentation]. Child Language Symposium. Newcastle University: Newcastle, United Kingdom.
Pronina, M., Florit-Pons, J., Coego, S., & Prieto, P. (2024, May 7-9). The development of prosodic, gestural and sentence imitation across typically developing and clinical child populations [Oral presentation]. International Child Phonolgy Conference. University of Lousiana: Lafayette, LA, USA.
Pronina, M., Florit-Pons, J., Coego, S., & Prieto, P. (2024, September 25-27). Different developmental paths of multimodal imitation in typically and non-typically developing preschool and primary school children [Oral presentation]. 2nd International MultiModal Communication Symposium. Goethe Universität Frankfurt: Frankfurt, Germany.
2023
Esteve-Gibert, N., Ahufinger, N., Pronina, M., Florit-Pons, J., & Prieto, P. (2023, July 9-14). Children’s linguistic abilities at 5-6 years of age can be predicted by expressive pragmatic skills at 3-4 years of age [Oral presentation]. 18th International Pragmatics Conference. Université Libre de Bruxelles: Brussels, Belgium.
Florit-Pons, J., Prieto, P., & Igualada, A. (2023, July 24-26). La intervención narrativa MultiModal como herramienta para mejorar las habilidades narrativas y pragmáticas de niños con TDL y TEA [Oral presentation]. 2nd Spanish-speaking Congress on Developmental Language Disorder. Universidad Nacional de Colombia: Bogotá, Colombia.
2022
Esteve-Gibert, N., Ahufinger, N., Pronina, M., Florit-Pons, J., & Prieto, P. (2022, September 7-9). Expressive pragmatic skills at 3-4 years of age predict core linguistic abilities at 5-6 years of age [Oral presentation]. 10th International Congress on Language Acquisition. Universitat de Girona: Girona, Spain.
Florit-Pons, J., Prieto, P., & Igualada, A. (2022, September 7-9). Los efectos de una intervención narrativa inclusiva multimodal en las habilidades narrativas y pragmáticas de niños con TEA y TEL/TDL de edad preescolar [Oral presentation]. 10th International Congress on Language Acquisition. Universitat de Girona: Girona, Spain.
Florit-Pons, J., Igualada, A., & Prieto, P. (2022, July 13-15). The effects of an inclusive multimodal narrative-based intervention on narrative and pragmatic abilities in preschool children: A classroom investigation [Oral presentation]. 9th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS). University of Chicago: Chicago, IL, USA.
Rohrer, P. L., Vilà-Giménez, I., Florit-Pons, J., Esteve-Gibert, N., Ren, A., Shattuck-Hufnagel, S., & Prieto, P. (2022, July 13-15). The MultiModal MultiDimensional (M3D) approach to gesture-speech annotation [Oral presentation]. 9th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS). University of Chicago: Chicago, IL, USA.
Florit-Pons, J., Gómez, M., Buendía, A., Carrera-Sabaté, J., Igualada, A., & Prieto, P. (2022, July 7). L'efectivitat del programa d'intervenció Narrativa MultiModal (NMM): Resultats de tres estudis realitzats a educació infantil [Oral presentation]. XIIIè Workshop sobre la prosòdia del català. Universitat de Barcelona: Barcelona, Spain.
2021
Florit-Pons, J., Vilà-Giménez, I., Rohrer, P. L., & Prieto, P. (2021, December 6-9). The development of co-speech gestures and their temporal alignment with prosodic prominence: A longitudinal insight from children's narrative speech [Oral presentation].1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI). University of Southern Denmark: Sonderborg, Denmark. [Best Paper Award]
Florit-Pons, J., Prieto, P., & Igualada, A. (2021, September 20-22). A meta-analytic review of the effects of multimodal language on DLD children’s language development [Oral presentation]. 1st International Developmental Language Disorder Research Conference. The DLD Project: Australia. [Watch the 15-minute video presented at this conference]
Florit-Pons, J., Rohrer, P. L, & Muñoz, S. (2021, July 24). El marcatge prosòdic i gestual del grau de novetat dels referents en el discurs narratiu de nens/es: Un estudi longitudinal [Oral presentation]. Escola d'Estiu de Lingüística Catalana (EDELC). Universitat de les Illes Balears.
Florit-Pons, J., Rohrer, P. L, Muñoz, S., Vilà-Giménez, I., & Prieto, P. (2021, July 15). Desenvolupament del marcatge prosòdic i gestual dels referents en el discurs: un estudi longitudinal [Oral presentation]. XIIè Workshop sobre la prosòdia del català. Universitat de Barcelona & Universitat de les Illes Balears. [Watch the 20-minute video presented at this conference]
Florit-Pons, J., Vilà-Giménez, I., Rohrer, P. L., & Prieto, P. (2021, January 27-29). Referent’s information status, pitch accentuation, and gestural marking in children’s narratives: a longitudinal perspective. [Oral presentation]. 18th Old World Conference on Phonology (OCP). Universitat de les Illes Balears: Eivissa, Illes Balears. [Link to the abstract]
Florit-Pons, J., Vilà-Giménez, I., Rohrer, P. L., & Prieto, P. (2021, January 4-8). The development of non-referential gestures and the ability to mark IS in narrative speech: A longitudinal study [Oral presentation]. Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development. Cognitive Development Center CEU: Budapest, Hungary. [Watch the 5-minute video presented at this conference]
2020
Florit-Pons, J., Graziano, M., Vilà-Giménez, I., Rohrer, P. L., & Prieto, P. (2020, October 22-23). Crosslinguistic analysis of gesture development in narrative speech [Oral presentation]. GEstures and Head Movements in Language (GEHM) plenary meeting. University of Copenhaguen: Copenhaguen, Denmark.
Florit-Pons, J., Vilà-Giménez, I., Rohrer, P. L., & Prieto, P. (2020, September 7-9). The development and temporal integration of co-speech gesture in narrative speech: a longitudinal study [Oral presentation]. Gesture and Speech in Interaction (GESPIN). KTH Speech, Music & Hearing and Språkbanken Tal: Stockholm, Sweden. [Watch the 10-minute video presented at this conference]
Rohrer, P. L., Vilà-Giménez, I., Florit-Pons, J., Esteve-Gibert, N., Ren, A., Shattuck-Hufnagel, S., & Prieto, P. (2020, September 7-9). The MultiModal MultiDimensional (M3D) labelling scheme for the annotation of audiovisual corpora [Oral presentation]. Gesture and Speech in Interaction (GESPIN). KTH Speech, Music & Hearing and Språkbanken Tal: Stockholm, Sweden. [Watch the 20-minute video presented at this conference]
Poster presentations
2024
Espejo-Álvarez, J., Florit-Pons, J., Luong, C.L., Igualada, A., & Prieto, P. (2024, July 15-19). Using the MMN intervention to boost microstructure and fluency in Catalan in unbalanced bilinguals [Poster presentation]. 16th congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language. Charles University: Prague, Czech Republic.
Florit-Pons, J., Prieto, P., & Igualada, A. (2024, September 25-27). A multimodal narrative intervention for boosting NDD children’s oral narrative skills [Poster presentation]. 2nd International MultiModal Communication Symposium. Goethe Universität Frankfurt: Frankfurt, Germany.
Pronina, M., Florit-Pons, J., Coego, S. & Prieto, P. (2024, July 9-11). Gesture, prosody and sentence imitation in neurotypical and clinical preschool and primary children [Poster presentation]. Child Language Symposium. Newcastle University: Newcastle, United Kingdom.
2023
Florit-Pons, J., Prieto, P. & Igualada, A. (2023, November 16-18). The MultiModal Narrative Intervention for Boosting ASD and DLD Children's Narrative and Pragmatic Skills [Poster presentation]. 2023 ASHA Convention. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association: Boston, MA, USA.
Florit-Pons, J., Pronina, M., Igualada, A., Prieto, P., & Norbury, C. F. (2023, October 25-27). Multimodal skills, but not motor skills, predict narrative and pragmatic skills in typically and non-typically developing preschoolers [Poster presentation]. Many Paths to Language Conference. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics: Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Florit-Pons, J., Igualada, A., & Prieto, P. (2023, April 26-28). MultiModal Narrative (MMN): An inclusive multimodal narrative-based intervention for boosting preschoolers’ narrative and pragmatic abilities [Poster presentation]. 1st International MultiModal Communication Symposium. Universitat Pompeu Fabra: Barcelona, Spain.
Florit-Pons, J., Igualada, A., & Prieto, P. (2023, July 9-14). The evidence of the MultiModal Narrative (MMN) intervention on preschool children’s narrative and pragmatic abilities [Poster presentation]. 18th International Pragmatics Conference. Université Libre de Bruxelles: Brussels, Belgium.
2022
Florit-Pons, J., Prieto, P., & Igualada, A. (2022, July 13-15). A systematic review of the effect multimodal abilities on language development in ASD and DLD children [Poster presentation]. 9th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS). University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Florit-Pons, J., Prieto, P., & Igualada, A. (2022, July 13-15). Can multimodality boost narrative and pragmatic abilities of preschool ASD and DLD children? Evidences from a preliminary study [Poster presentation]. 9th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS). University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Muñoz-Coego, S., Florit-Pons, J., Rohrer, P. L., Vilà-Giménez, I., &Prieto, P. (2022, May 23-26). The prosodic and gestural marking of information status in children's narrative speech: A longitudinal study [Poster presentation]. 11th International Conference on Speech Prosody. Lisbon, Portugal.
Muñoz-Coego, S., Florit-Pons, J., Rohrer, P. L., Vilà-Giménez, I., & Prieto, P. (2022, Gener 10-14). The multimodal marking of discourse referents in children's narrative speech: Evidence from gesture and prosody [Poster presentation]. Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development. Cognitive Development Center CEU: Budapest, Hungary.
2021
Muñoz-Coego, S., Florit-Pons, J., Rohrer, P. L., Vilà-Giménez, I., & Prieto, P. (2021, December 6-9). The prosodic marking of Referent Status in Catalan children's narrative discourse: A longitudinal study [Poster presentation]. 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI). University of Southern Denmark: Sonderborg, Denmark.
Invited talks
Florit-Pons, J. (2023, November 24). Boosting children's oral language skills: Evidence from the implementation of the MultiModal Narrative intervention in two complementary educational and clinical settings [Oral presentation]. UR-Ling Workshop. Universitat Pompeu Fabra: Barcelona.
Florit-Pons, J. (2023, November 24). Which dimensions of multimodal abilities are related to narrative and pragmatic abilities? A correlational study with typically and non-typically developing preschool children [Oral presentation]. Literacy, Language & Communication Laboratory. University College London: London, United Kingdom.