Mariia Pronina

Research Interests

-Prosodic development
-Gesture-speech development
-Pragmatic and ToM development
-Multimodal learning

Current Projects

- Sociopragmatic competence in preschoolers and its link with other abilities

- A correlational examination of the link between children´s imitation skilss and their sociopragmatic abilities

- Developmental trajectories of prosody and gesture in their expression of sociopragmatic meanings

- The role of enactment in the development of pragmatic abilities and ToM

Publications

2021

Pronina, M., Hübscher, I, Holler, J., & Prieto, P. (2021). Interactional training interventions boost children's expressive pragmatic abilities: evidence from a novel multidimensional testing approach. Cognitive Development 57, 101003. doi: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2020.101003

Pronina M., Hübscher I., Vilà-Giménez, I., & Prieto, P. (2021). Bridging the Gap Between Prosody and Pragmatics: The Acquisition of Pragmatic Prosody in the Preschool Years and Its Relation With Theory of Mind. Front. Psychol. 12:662124. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.662124

Castillo, E., Pronina, M., Hübscher, I, Prieto, P. (in press). Narrative performance and sociopragmatic abilities in preschool children are linked to multimodal imitation skills. Journal of Child Language.

Submitted

Pronina, M., Prieto, P., Bischetti, L., & Bambini, V. (submitted). Expressive pragmatics and prosody in young preschoolers are more related to structural language than to social cognition. Language Learning and Development.

Pronina, M., Grofulovic, J., Castillo, E., Prieto, P., Igualada, A. (submitted). Narrative abilities at age 3 are associated positively with gesture accuracy but negatively with gesture rate. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.

Proceedings papers

Pronina, M., Hübscher, I., Vilà-Giménez, I., & Prieto, P. (2019). A new tool to assess pragmatic prosody in children: evidence from 3- to 4-year-olds. Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS, 2019). 

Communications

2021 (to be presented)

Pronina, M., Hübscher, I.,Vilà-Giménez, I., & Prieto, P. (2021, December 6-9). "The acquisition of pragmatic prosody by Catalan preschool and school-aged children". Poster presentation at 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI), Sonderborg, Denmark.

2021

Pronina, M., Hübscher, I., Holler, J., & Prieto, P. (2021, July 15-20). "Conversational perspective-taking training improves preschoolers' sociopragmatic skills". Poster presentation at International Association for the Study of Child Language Conference (IASCL), Philadelphia, USA.

Pronina, M.,Castillo, E., Hübscher, I., & Prieto, P. (2021, July 15-20). "Multimodal imitation abilities correlate with narrative and sociopragmatic skills in preschool children". Oral presentation at International Association for the Study of Child Language Conference (IASCL), Philadelphia, USA.

Pronina, M., Prieto, P., Bischetti, L., & Bambini, V. (2021, 27 June-2 July). "Is it language or social cognition? The cognitive status of expressive pragmatics and prosody in young preschool children". Presentation at 17th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA), Winterhur, Switzerland.

Pronina, M., Hübscher, I., Holler, J., & Prieto, P. (2021, July 8-9). "Mental state training and sociopragmatic development of preschool children". Poster presentation at XPRAG.it 2020(21) Conference, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.​

Pronina, M., Hübscher, I., Vilà-Giménez, I., & Prieto, P. (2021, April 29-May 1). "Acquiring pragmatic prosody: Evidence from 3- to 4-year-old Catalan speaking children". Oral presentatoin at Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), University of Illinois, Illinois, USA. 

Pronina, M., Prieto, P., Bischetti, L., & Bambini, V. (2021, January 4-8).  "Is it language or social cognition? How expressive pragmatics and expressive prosody relate to other skills in preschool children". Oral presentation at Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Cognitive Development Center CEU, Budapest, Hungary.

Pronina, M., Hübscher, I., Vilà-Giménez, I., & Prieto, P. (2021, January 27-29). "Bridging the gap between prosody and pragmatics: Preschoolers' prosodic profiles and Theory of Mind abilities". Oral presentation at 18th Old World Conference on Phonology (OCP), University of the Balearic Islands, Eivissa, Illes Balears.

2019

Pronina, M., Hübscher, I., Vilà-Giménez, I., & Prieto, P. (2019). "A new tool to assess pragmatic prosody in children: Evidence from 3- to 4-year-olds". Poster presentation at International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre: Melbourne (Australia), August 5-9.

Pronina, M., Hübscher, I., Vilà-Giménez, I., & Prieto, P. (2019). "El desenvolupament de la prosòdia i la pragmàtica en nens catalanoparlants". Oral presentation at XIè Workshop sobre la prosòdia del català. Universitat Pompeu Fabra: Barcelona, July 15.

Pronina, M., Hübscher, I., Holler, J., & Prieto, P. (2019). "Teaching children to enact mental states and emotions improves their pragmatic skills". Oral presentation at Child Language Symposium 2019. University of Sheffield: Sheffield (UK), July 10-12.

Pronina, M., Hübscher, I., Vilà-Giménez, I., & Prieto, P. (2019). "Assessing pragmatic prosody in 3- to 4-year-old children". Poster presentation at 3rd Phonetics and Phonology in Europe conference. Hotel Tiziano: Lecce (Italy), June 17-19.

2018

Pronina, M., Hübscher, I., Holler, J., & Prieto, P. (2018). "El efecto del entrenamiento multimodal en potenciar habilidades de toma de perspectiva y competencia pragmática". Oral presentation at 1º Congreso Internacional sobre didáctica de la lengua infantil. Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU): Leioa (Bizkaia), November 14.

Pronina, M., Hübscher, I., Vilà-Giménez, I., & Prieto, P. (2018). "Avaluació d'habilitats pragmàtiques i prosòdiques dels nens en edat preescolar". Oral presentation at Xè Workshop sobre la prosòdia del català.  Universitat de Barcelona: Barcelona, June 28.