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View article: A Multimodal Approach to Catalan Pragmatic Markers: An Exploratory Study
A Multimodal Approach to Catalan Pragmatic Markers: An Exploratory Study Open
This exploratory study aims to investigate the co-occurrence of Catalan pragmatic markers that fulfill an interactive function and multimodal cues, such as manual gestures, adaptors, head gestures, and eye gaze. To do so, we utilized spont…
View article: Within-speaker accommodation behavior in apology-centered interactions
Within-speaker accommodation behavior in apology-centered interactions Open
The present study explores the extent to which vocal accommodation in conflicting situations can be explained by socio-pragmatic factors such as interpersonal relationships (i.e., politeness) and pragmatic events occurring in apology-cente…
View article: Indexing social distance through bodily visual practices in two languages
Indexing social distance through bodily visual practices in two languages Open
This paper explores the multimodal indexing of social distance in two unrelated languages/cultures: Korean and Catalan. Participants performed several tasks: once with a status superior (“socially distant” condition) and once with a friend…
View article: Gestures are modulated by social context
Gestures are modulated by social context Open
This paper investigates gesture as a resource for marking politeness-related meanings. We asked 14 Korean and 14 Catalan participants to retell a cartoon, once to an unknown superior and once to a close friend. Participants in both languag…
View article: Multimodal mitigation: how facial and body cues index politeness in Catalan requests
Multimodal mitigation: how facial and body cues index politeness in Catalan requests Open
Recent cross-linguistic research has demonstrated that speakers use a prosodic mitigation strategy when addressing higher status interlocutors by talking more slowly, reducing the intensity and lowering the overall fundamental frequency (F…
View article: 13. Distance and closeness: The im/politeness of space in communication
13. Distance and closeness: The im/politeness of space in communication Open
Space has been integral to the way that im/politeness has been theorized, most notably in the concept of “social distance” (Brown and Levinson 1987) and also Arundale’s (2006) “connection/separation face” dialectic. In this chapter, we sho…
View article: Narrative Performance and Sociopragmatic Abilities in Preschool Children are Linked to Multimodal Imitation Skills
Narrative Performance and Sociopragmatic Abilities in Preschool Children are Linked to Multimodal Imitation Skills Open
Over recent decades much research has analyzed the relevance of 9- to 20- month-old infants’ early imitation skills (object- and language-based imitation) for language development. Yet there have been few systematic comparisons of the join…
View article: Rethinking the frequency code: a meta-analytic review of the role of acoustic body size in communicative phenomena
Rethinking the frequency code: a meta-analytic review of the role of acoustic body size in communicative phenomena Open
The widely cited frequency code hypothesis attempts to explain a diverse range of communicative phenomena through the acoustic projection of body size. The set of phenomena includes size sound symbolism (using /i/ to signal smallness in wo…
View article: Bridging the Gap Between Prosody and Pragmatics: The Acquisition of Pragmatic Prosody in the Preschool Years and Its Relation With Theory of Mind
Bridging the Gap Between Prosody and Pragmatics: The Acquisition of Pragmatic Prosody in the Preschool Years and Its Relation With Theory of Mind Open
While it is well known that prosodic features are central in the conveyance of pragmatic meaning across languages, developmental research has assessed a narrow set of pragmatic functions of prosody. Research on prosodic development has foc…
View article: Three-year-olds infer polite stance from intonation and facial cues
Three-year-olds infer polite stance from intonation and facial cues Open
Despite the evidence that infants are sensitive to facial cues and prosody for the detection of emotion, we have contradictory evidence regarding the use of these cues by older preschool and school children when inferring both emotional an…
View article: Gestural and Prosodic Development Act as Sister Systems and Jointly Pave the Way for Children’s Sociopragmatic Development
Gestural and Prosodic Development Act as Sister Systems and Jointly Pave the Way for Children’s Sociopragmatic Development Open
Children might combine gesture and prosody to express a pragmatic meaning such as a request, information focus, uncertainty or politeness, before they can convey these meanings in speech. However, little is known about the developmental tr…
View article: Developmental and cognitive aspects of children’s disbelief comprehension through intonation and facial gesture
Developmental and cognitive aspects of children’s disbelief comprehension through intonation and facial gesture Open
This article investigates how children leverage intonational and gestural cues to an individual’s belief state through unimodal (intonation-only or facial gesture-only) and multimodal (intonation + facial gesture) cues. A total of 187 pres…
View article: Preschoolers use prosodic mitigation strategies to encode polite stance
Preschoolers use prosodic mitigation strategies to encode polite stance Open
While prosody has been shown to act as a syntactic bootstrapper in early language acquisition, little is known about the role that prosody plays in the later development of a child’s ability to communicate pragmatic information such as the…
View article: Intonation and gesture as bootstrapping devices in speaker uncertainty
Intonation and gesture as bootstrapping devices in speaker uncertainty Open
This study investigates 3- to 5-year-old children’s sensitivity to lexical, intonational and gestural information in the comprehension of speaker uncertainty. Most previous studies on children’s understanding of speaker certainty and uncer…
View article: Young children's sensitivity to polite stance expressed through audiovisual prosody in requests
Young children's sensitivity to polite stance expressed through audiovisual prosody in requests Open
Comunicació presentada a: Speech Prosody 2016, celebrada del 31 de maig al 3 de juny de 2016 a Boston, Estats Units.