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Júlia Florit-Pons
About Me
Júlia Florit-Pons is a third-year PhD student at the Department of Translation and Language Sciences at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Catalonia), carrying out her research under the supervision of Dr. Pilar Prieto (ICREA/UPF) and Dr. Alfonso Igualada (UOC). Her research focuses on the role that multimodality plays in the language development of typically developing (TD) children and of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). Specifically, she works on a) designing and validating an inclusive intervention program to analyze how multimodality can boost narrative and pragmatic abilities of TD, ASD and DLD children, and b) examining how multimodality and linguistic skills relate to each other in these populations.
She is also a teacher at the Department of Translation and Language Sciences at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, where she teaches Phonetics and Phonology, Linguistics and Catalan Language; and at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sicences at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, where she teaches Language Acquisition (B.A. in Speech-Language Therapy) and supervises M.A. theses (M.A. in Learning Difficulties and Language Disorders).
Research Interests
- First Language Acquisition
- Multimodal learning and embodied cognition
- Pragmatic development
- Narrative development
- Gesture-speech development
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Developmental Language Disorder
Current Projects
- Pragmatic and narrative development in TD, DLD and ASD children
- The relationship between pragmatic ability and other linguistic abilities
- Oral narrative interventions for boosting linguistic (narrative and pragmatic) abilities in typical and non-typical populations
- Temporal integration between gesture prominence and pitch accentuation
- The pragmatic features of non-referential gestures
- The MultiModal MultiDimensional (M3D) labeling system for multimodal corpora
Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals
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
Conference Proceedings
Muñoz-Coego, S., Florit-Pons, J., Rohrer, P. L., Vilà-Giménez, I. i Prieto, P. (2022, May 23-26). Gestural and prosodic marking of referent status in children’s narrative speech: A longitudinal study. Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Speech Prosody. Universidade de Lisboa: Lisboa (Portugal).
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. Proceedings of the Gesture and Speech in Interaction (GeSpIn). KTH Royal Institute of Technology: 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. Proceedings of the Gesture and Speech in Interaction (GeSpIn). KTH Royal Institute of Technology: Stockholm (Sweden). [Watch the 20-minute video presented at this conference]
Selected Communications
2023
Esteve-Gibert, N., Ahufinger, N., Florit-Pons, J., Pronina, M., & 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 at the 18th International Pragmatics Conference. Université Libre de Bruxelles: Brussels, Belgium.
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 at the 18th International Pragmatics Conference. Université Libre de Bruxelles: Brussels, Belgium.
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 at the 1st International Multimodal Communication Symposium (MMSYM). Universitat Pompeu Fabra: Barcelona, Spain.
2022
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 at the X 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 at the 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 at the 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). Gestural and prosodic marking of referent status in children’s narrative speech: A longitudinal study. Poster presentation at the 11th Conference on Speech Prosody. Universidade de Lisboa: Lisboa, Portugal.
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 at the 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI). University of Southern Denmark: Sonderborg, Denmark. **Winner of the Best Paper Award at TAI, 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 at the 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI). University of Southern Denmark: Sonderborg, Denmark.
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 at 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 at Escola d'Estiu de Lingüística Catalana (EDELC). Universitat de les Illes Balears: Palma, Spain.
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 at XIIè Workshop sobre la prosòdia del català. Universitat de Barcelona & Universitat de les Illes Balears:Palma, Spain. [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 inchildren’s narratives: a longitudinal perspective. Oral presentation at 18th Old World Conference on Phonology (OCP). University of the Balearic Islands: Eivissa, Illes Balears.
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 at Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development. Central European University: Budapest, Hungary. [Watch the 5-minute video presented at this conference]
2020
Florit-Pons, J., Graziano, M., Vilà-Giménez, I., Rohrer, P. L., and Prieto, P. (2020, October 22-23). Crosslinguistic analysis of gesture development in narrative speech. Oral presentation at 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 at Gesture and Speech in Interaction (GeSpIn). KTH Royal Institute of Technology: 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 at Gesture and Speech in Interaction (GeSpIn). KTH Royal Institute of Technology: Stockholm (Sweden). [Watch the 20-minute video presented at this conference]
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