Paula G. Sánchez-Ramón

About her

Paula Ginesa Sánchez-Ramón is a first-year PhD student developing her research under an international joint cotutelle between Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain) and Goethe-Universität (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).
She holds a B.A. in Primary Education and Teaching (Universitat Jaume I) with a specialization in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (Universidad Internacional de La Rioja), and an M.A. in Learning Difficulties and Language Disorders with a concentration in Speech and Language (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya). During her studies, she was awarded two Erasmus+ scholarships: one at Uniwersytet Gdański (Gdańsk, Poland) and the other at Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal).
Her main research focuses on the prosodic and gestural marking of information structure in Catalan-speaking adults, as part of the Priority Programme "Visual Communication. Theoretical, Empirical, and Applied Perspectives (ViCom)", funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation).

Research Interests

• Prosody
• Gesture studies
• Information Structure
• Gesture-speech development

Current Projects

• Co-speech gestures and prosody as multimodal markers of information structure.