Publications
Journal articles
Florit-Pons, J., Vilà-Giménez, I., Rohrer, P. L. & Prieto, P. (2023). 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, 66(3), 888-900. doi: 10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00451
Rohrer*, P. L., Florit-Pons*, J., 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
* Shared first authorship
Conference proceedings
Florit-Pons, J., Vilà-Giménez, I., Rohrer, P. L. & Prieto, P. (2020). The development and temporal integration of co-speech gesture in narrative speech: A longitudinal study. Proceedings of the Gesture and Speech in Interaction (GESPIN). Stockholm, Sweden.
Muñoz-Coego, S., Florit-Pons, J., Rohrer, P. L., Vilà-Giménez, I., & Prieto, P. (2022). The prosodic and gestural marking of information status in children's narrative speech: A longitudinal study. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Speech Prosody. Lisbon, Portugal.
Rohrer, P. L., Vilà-Giménez, I., Florit-Pons, J., Esteve-Gibert, N., Ren, A., Shattuck-Hufnagel, S., & Prieto, P. (2020). The MultiModal MultiDimensional (M3D) labelling scheme for the annotation of audiovisual corpora. Proceedings of the Gesture and Speech in Interaction (GESPIN). Stockholm, Sweden.
Theses
Florit-Pons, J. (in prep.). Multimodality as a tool for boosting narrative and pragmatic abilities in typical and non-typical language development [PhD thesis]. Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Directed by Pilar Prieto (ICREA/UPF) and Alfonso Igualada (UOC). [Access to the PhD thesis Research Plan]
Florit-Pons, J. (2020). Temporal integration of gesture and speech in narrative discourse: An insight into the development of co-speech gesture use [M. A. thesis]. Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Directed by Pilar Prieto (ICREA/UPF). [Access to the thesis]
Florit-Pons, J. (2019). Comparative analysis of stress-shifting pronominal encliticisation in two Menorcan towns [B. A. thesis]. Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Directed by Mario Bisiada (UPF). [Access to the thesis]
Press
El Periódico de Catalunya. (2022, February 8). ¿Cómo cambian los gestos a lo largo de la infancia? https://www.elperiodico.com/es/entre-todos/20220208/cambian-gestos-infancia-13206630
Discover Magazine. (2022, March 5). Why Hand Gestures Are Important. https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/why-hand-gestures-are-important
Universitat Pompeu Fabra. (2022, January 31). The usefulness of gestures in language development. https://www.upf.edu/home/-/asset_publisher/1fBlrmbP2HNv/content/id/254619752/maximized
Vilà-Giménez, I., Florit-Pons, J., Igualada, A., & Prieto, P. (2023, April 28). Cal potenciar que els infants aprenguin a expressar-se amb el cos i no només amb paraules. El Diari de l'Educació. https://diarieducacio.cat/cal-potenciar-que-els-infants-aprenguin-a-expressar-se-amb-el-cos-i-no-nomes-amb-paraules/