Núria Esteve Gibert

Research interests

- First language acquisition
- Acquisition of intonation and gestures
- Coordination of gesture and speech

Current Projects

- Aquisition of prosody at the babbling stage in Catalan. Prosodic, gestural, and pragmatic considerations [PhD project]
- Early prosody and the development of intentional communciation
- Early gestures and the development of intentional communciation
- Coordination of gesture and speech in children and adults

Selected Publications

Esteve-Gibert, N. & Prieto, P. (under revision). Prosody signals the emergence of intentional communication in the first year of life: evidence from Catalan-babbling infants. Journal of Child Language.

Esteve-Gibert, N. & Prieto, P. (sent). Intonational and gestural structures are temporally coordinated. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.

Selected Presentations

Esteve-Gibert, N; Prieto, P. «The temporal alignment between prosody and gesture in Catalan babbling infants». Oral presentation at Gesture and Speech in Interaction (Gespin) 2011. Bielefeld University: Bielefeld, 5-7 September 2011.

Esteve-Gibert, N.; Prieto, P. «The temporal alignment between prosody and gesture in Catalan-babbling infants». Poster at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) 2011. Paris Descartes University: Paris, 1-3 September 2011.

Esteve-Gibert, N. «The temporal alignment between prosody and gesture in Catalan-babbling infants». Oral presentation at Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia (PaPI) 2011. Universitat Rovira i Virgili: Tarragona, 21-22 June 2011.

Esteve-Gibert, N.; Prieto, P. «The temporal alignment between prosody and gesture in Catalan-babbling infants». Poster at Experimental Pragmatics Conference. Universitat Pompeu Fabra: Barcelona, 2-4 June 2011.

Esteve-Gibert, N.; Prieto, P. «The development of prosodic patterns in Catalan-babbling infants». Oral presentation at VI International Conference on Language Adquisition. Universitat de Barcelona: Barcelona, 8-10 September 2010.