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Igualada Pérez, Alfonso (Fecha de defensa: 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 (Fecha de defensa: 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 (Fecha de defensa: 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 (Fecha de defensa: 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 (Fecha de defensa: 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 (Fecha de defensa: 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 (Fecha de defensa: 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 (Fecha de defensa: 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 (Fecha de defensa: 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 (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...