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Pilar Prieto is affiliated with Pompeu Fabra University in Spain and has contributed extensively to research in psychology, arts and humanities. Their work spans multiple specialized subfields, including developmental and educational psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, language and linguistics, human-computer interaction, and cognitive neuroscience.

The research topics addressed by Pilar Prieto encompass hearing impairment and communication, language, metaphor, and cognition, phonetics and phonology research, language, discourse and communication strategies, hand gesture recognition systems, language development and disorders, and EFL/ESL teaching and learning.

Some of the scientist's recent publications include:

  • Rethinking the frequency code: a meta-analytic review of the role of acoustic body size in communicative phenomena, 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Encouraging kids to beat: Children's beat gesture production boosts their narrative performance, 2020, Developmental Science
  • OBSERVING AND PRODUCING DURATIONAL HAND GESTURES FACILITATES THE PRONUNCIATION OF NOVEL VOWEL-LENGTH CONTRASTS, 2020, Studies in Second Language Acquisition
  • Embodied Prosodic Training Helps Improve Accentedness and Suprasegmental Accuracy, 2022, Applied Linguistics
  • The effectiveness of embodied prosodic training in L2 accentedness and vowel accuracy, 2022, Second Language Research

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Florence Baills
  • Peng Li
  • Ingrid Vilà-Giménez
  • Patrick Louis Rohrer
  • Júlia Florit-Pons

Pilar Prieto regularly publishes in venues such as Speech Prosody 2022, Frontiers in Psychology, Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, and Language Learning.

Best Publications

  • Tonal alignment patterns in Spanish

    Pilar Prieto;Jan van Santen;Julia Hirschberg

  • Pitch downtrend in Spanish

    Pilar Prieto;Chilin Shih;Holly Nibert

  • Rising Accents in Castilian Spanish: A Revision of Sp_ToBI

    Timothy L. Face;Pilar Prieto

  • Acoustic correlates of stress in central Catalan and Castilian Spanish

    Marta Ortega-Llebaria;Pilar Prieto

  • Intonation in Romance

    Sónia Frota;Pilar Prieto

  • Pitch accent alignment in Romance: primary and secondary associations with metrical structure

    Pilar Prieto;Mariapaola D'Imperio;Barbara Gili Fivela

  • The phonetics and phonology of intonational phrasing in Romance

    Sonia Frota;Mariapaola d'Imperio;Gorka Elordieta;Pilar Prieto

  • Intonational phrasing in Romance: The role of syntactic and prosodic structure

    Mariapaola D'Imperio;Gorka Elordieta;Sónia Frota;Pilar Prieto

  • The segmental anchoring hypothesis revisited: Syllable structure and speech rate effects on peak timing in Spanish

    Pilar Prieto;Francisco Torreira

  • Prosodic structure shapes the temporal realization of intonation and manual gesture movements.

    Núria Esteve-Gibert;Pilar Prieto

  • Phonotactic and phrasal properties of speech rhythm. Evidence from Catalan, English, and Spanish

    Pilar Prieto;Maria del Mar Vanrell;Lluïsa Astruc;Elinor Payne

  • Rhythmic typology and variation in first and second languages

    Laurence White;Sven L. Mattys

  • Intonational variation in Spanish

    José Ignacio Hualde;Pilar Prieto

  • Training intonational phrasing rules automatically for English and Spanish text-to-speech

    Julia Hirschberg;Pilar Prieto

  • Towards an International Prosodic Alphabet (IPrA)

    José I. Hualde;Pilar Prieto

  • Infants temporally coordinate gesture-speech combinations before they produce their first words

    Núria Esteve-Gibert;Pilar Prieto

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  • DISENTANGLING STRESS FROM ACCENT IN SPANISH: PRODUCTION PATTERNS OF THE STRESS CONTRAST IN DEACCENTED SYLLABLES *

    Marta Ortega-Llebaria;Pilar Prieto

  • Measuring child rhythm.

    Elinor Payne;Brechtje Post;Lluïsa Astruc;Pilar Prieto

  • The Syntax-Prosody Interface: Catalan interrogative sentences headed by que

    Pilar Prieto;Gemma Rigau

  • Intonation as an encoder of speaker certainty: information and confirmation yes-no questions in Catalan.

    Maria del Mar Vanrell;Ignasi Mascaró;Francesc Torres-Tamarit;Pilar Prieto

  • Effects of constituent length and syntactic branching on intonational phrasing in Ibero-Romance

    Gorka Elordieta;Sónia Frota;Pilar Prieto;Marina Vigário

  • The Intonational Phonology of Catalan

    Pilar Prieto

  • Perceiving incredulity: The role of intonation and facial gestures

    Verònica Crespo Sendra;Constantijn Kaland;Marc Swerts;Pilar Prieto

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc Swerts
Marc Swerts Tilburg University
Emiel Krahmer
Emiel Krahmer Tilburg University
Judith Holler
Judith Holler Max Planck Society
Sven L. Mattys
Sven L. Mattys University of York
Thierry Nazzi
Thierry Nazzi Université Paris Cité
Albert Costa
Albert Costa Pompeu Fabra University
Franck Ramus
Franck Ramus École Normale Supérieure
Letitia R. Naigles
Letitia R. Naigles University of Connecticut
LouAnn Gerken
LouAnn Gerken University of Arizona
Susan Goldin-Meadow
Susan Goldin-Meadow University of Chicago

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