Research

Current projects

Previous projects

I actively collaborate with members from the following research groups:

Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEPG, Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

• • Prof. Pilar Prieto

  • Sara Coego

  • Joel Espejo-Álvarez

  • Jana Folch Claramunt

  • Ting Yao

Cognition and Language Research Group (GRECIL, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya–Universitat de Barcelona)

• • Dr. Alfonso Igualada

  • Dr. Núria Esteve-Gibert

  • Dr. Nadia Ahufinger

Institut für Linguistik (IfL, Universität zu Köln)

• • Prof. Martine Grice

  • Prof. Stefan Baumann

  • Dr. Janne Lorenzen

  • Matteo Schmelzer

Grup de Recerca Sociolingüística de les Illes Balears (GRESIB, Universitat de les Illes Balears)

• Dr. Mariia Pronina

2026–2029    Multimodal Prosody as a fundamental component in language development and learning (MULTIPROS-DEAL)

Principal Investigator: Dr. Pilar Prieto

Funding agency: Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities

Ref.: PID2025-170254NB-I00

Amount awarded: 75 000 €

2025–2028    Multimodal approach to language learning: insights into the linguistic skills of children with neurodevelopmental disorders (MultiLearn)

Principal Investigator: Dr. Núria Esteve-Gibert & Dr. Alfonso Igualada

Funding agency: Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities

Ref.: PID2024-160858NB-I00

Amount awarded: 50 000 €

2024–2026    Preventing school failure of migrant students via a whole-school narrative intervention program (PREVENT-NI)

Principal Investigator: Dr. Pilar Prieto

Funding agency: Social Research Call, LaCaixa Foundation

Ref.: SR24-00260

Amount awarded: 115 000 €

2023–2025      Grup de Recerca Consolidat (GRC) to the Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEPG)

Principal Investigator: Dr. Pilar Prieto

Funding agency: Pla de Recerca de Catalunya, Generalitat de Catalunya

Ref.: 2021 SGR_922

Amount awarded: 60 000 €

2022–2025    Multimodal Communication (MCOM): The integration of prosody and gesture in human communication and in language learning

Principal Investigator: Dr. Pilar Prieto

Funding agency: Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation

Ref.: PID2021-123823NB-I00

Amount awarded: 85 305 €

2022–2023      StoryTIC: Una eina digital per potenciar la narrativa oral infantil

Principal Investigator: Dr. Pilar Prieto

Funding agency: Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca, Generalitat de Catalunya

Ref.: 2021 LLAV 00022

Amount awarded: 20 000 €

2019–2023      GEHM: GEstures and Head Movements in language

Principal Investigator: Dr. Patrizia Paggio

Funding agency: Independent Research Fund Denmark (IRFD)

Ref.: 9055-00004B

Amount awarded: 1 206 435 DKK (≈ 161 606 €)

2019–2021      Multimodal Language Learning (MLL): Prosodic and Gestural Integration in Pragmatic and Phonological Development

Principal Investigator: Dr. Pilar Prieto

Funding agency: Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities

Ref.: PGC2018-097007-B-100

Amount awarded: 44 770 €

2018–2021      Grup de Recerca Consolidat (GRC) to the Prosodic Studies Group (GrEP)

Principal Investigator: Dr. Pilar Prieto

Funding agency: Pla de Recerca de Catalunya, Generalitat de Catalunya

Ref.: 2017 SGR_971

Amount awarded: 26 029 €