Mariia Pronina Language acquisition, prosody, gesture, multilingualism

Oral & poster talks

Invited talks

Pronina, M. (2024, November 20). Sound foreign in the mother tongue? Acquisition of the intonation of heritage language. Research seminar series of Institute for Educational Research and Innovation (IRIE). University of the Balearic Islands, Palma, Spain.

Pronina, M. (2024, September 14). The acquisition of prosody in Russian heritage children in Catalonia. Deutscher Katalanistentag 2024. University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany.

Pronina, M. (2024, January 22). The acquisition of prosody in Russian heritage children: the role of society and family. Seminar series of PsychoLinguistics Lab. University of Konstanz. Konstanz, Germany.

Pronina, M.(2021, February 10). The acquisition of pragmatic prosody in the preschool years and its link to Theory of Mind. Seminar series Talks on Formal Linguistics. University of the Basque Country, Vitoria, Spain.

Pronina, M. (2020, January 16). Pragmatic competence in preschoolers and its link with other abilities. NeTS Linguistics Seminar, IUSS, Pavia, Italy.

2025

Pronina, M., Knyazev, S., & Vanrell, M.M. (2025). Question intonation in heritage Russian-speaking children. [Poster presentation]. Bilingualism Matters Symposium 2025, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, March 24-25.

Pronina, M., Knyazev, S., & Vanrell, M.M. (2025). Heritage Question Intonation in Multilingual Children. [Oral presentation]. 10th Spring Research Conference, International University of Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, March 14.

Vanrell, M.M., Pronina, M., Fernández-Soriano, O. & (2025). La interfaz sintaxis-prosodia en las interrogativas del español del País Vasco. [Oral presentation]. LIII Simposio Internacional de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, January 20-23.

Pronina, M., Knyazev, S., & Vanrell, M.M. (2025). La adquisición de la entonación en niños multilingües con el ruso como lengua de herencia en Cataluña. [Oral presentation]. LIII Simposio Internacional de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, January 20-23.

2024

Pronina, M., Florit-Pons, J., Coego, S., & Prieto, P. (2024). Different developmental paths of multimodal imitation in typically and non-typically developing preschool and primary school children. [Oral presentation]. 2nd International MultiModal Communication Symposium. Goethe Universität Frankfurt: Frankfurt, Germany, September 25-27.

Vilà-Giménez, I., Pronina, M., & Prieto, P. (2024). Exploring children’s storytelling: The link between narrative abilities, receptive vocabulary and gesture rate in 7- to 9-year-olds. [Poster presentation]. 2nd International MultiModal Communication Symposium. Goethe Universität Frankfurt: Frankfurt, Germany, September 25-27.

Pronina, M., Knyazev, S., & Vanrell, M.M. (2024). Intonation transfer from Catalan and Spanish to heritage Russian language. [Oral presentation]. XV Workshop sobre la prosòdia del català, University of the Balearic Islands, Palma, Spain, September 6.

Florit-Pons, J., Pronina, M., Coego, S., & Prieto, P. (2024). El desenvolupament de l’habilitat d’imitació multimodal: un estudi comparatiu amb nens amb desenvolupament típic i nens amb trastorns del neurodesenvolupament. [Oral presentation]. XVè Workshop sobre la prosòdia del català. University of the Balearic Islands: Palma, Spain, September 6.

Florit-Pons, J., Pronina, M., Igualada, A., Prieto, P., & Norbury, C. (2024). Multimodal skills but not motor skills predict language skills in neurotypical and clinical children. [Oral presentation]. 16th congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language. Charles University: Prague, Czech Republic, July 15-19.

Vilà-Giménez, I., Pronina, M., & Prieto, P. (2024). The link between fluent gesture rate, vocabulary and narrative skills in 7- to 9-year-old children. [Oral presentation]. In I. Vilà-Giménez & P. Prieto, Unraveling the predictive role of gesture in children’s linguistic and cognitive development [Symposium]. XVIth International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Prague, Czech Republic, July 15-19.

Pronina, M., Florit-Pons, J., Coego, S., & Prieto, P. (2024). Gesture, prosody, and sentence imitation in neurotypical and clinical preschool and primary school children. [Poster presentation]. Child Language Symposium. Newcastle University: Newcastle, UK, July 9-11.

Pronina, M., Vanrell, M. (2024). The acquisition of heritage prosody in bilingual vs. multilingual children: Russian heritage children in Madrid and Catalonia. [Poster presentation]. Child Language Symposium. Newcastle University: Newcastle, UK, July 9-11.

Pronina, M., Bambini, V., Bischetti, L., Ahufinger, N., Del Sette, P., Esteve-Gibert, N., Florit-Pons, J., Lecce, S., Prieto, P. (2024). Different linguistic and socio-cognitive predictors of pragmatics across modalities in 5–6-year-olds. [Oral presentation]. Child Language Symposium. Newcastle University: Newcastle, UK, July 9-11.

Pronina, M., Florit-Pons, J., Coego, S., & Prieto, P. (2024). The development of prosodic, gestural and sentence imitation across typically developing and clinical child populations. [Oral presentation]. International Child Phonology Conference. University of Louisiana: Lafayette, LA, USA, May 7-9.

2023

Florit-Pons, J., Pronina, M., Igualada, A., Prieto, P., & C. Norbury (2023). Multimodal skills, but not motor skills, predict narrative and pragmatic skills in typically and non-typically developing preschoolers. Poster presentation at the Many Paths to Language Conference, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, October 25-27.

Muñoz-Coego, S., Pronina, M., & Prieto, P. (2023). Les habilitats d’imitació prosòdica correlacionen amb les habilitats centrals del llenguatge en l’edat preescolar. [Oral presentation]. XIV Workshop sobre la prosòdia del català, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, July 21.

Esteve-Gibert, N., Ahufinger, N., Pronina, M., Florit-Pons, J., & Prieto, P. (2023). 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, July 9-14.

2022

Pronina, M., Grofulovic, J., Castillo, E., Prieto, P., & Igualada., A. (2022). Narrative skills are positively related to gesture accuracy but negatively to gesture rate: Evidence from Catalan preschool children aged 3–4. In Rojas, C., Desarrollo de la pragmática y el discurso [Symposium]. X International Congress on Language Acquisition. Universitat de Girona, Girona, September 7-9.

Pronina, M., Hübscher, I., Vilà-Giménez, I., & Prieto, P. (2022). Audiovisual Pragmatic Test: un nuevo test para evaluar las habilidades pragmáticas expresivas y prosódicas en niños/as catalanohablantes en la etapa infantil y primaria. In Igualada, A., Evaluación de la pragmática en etapa de desarrollo infantil [Symposium]. X International Congress on Language Acquisition. Universitat de Girona, Girona, September 7-9.

Esteve-Gibert, N., Ahufinger, N., Pronina, M., Florit-Pons, J., & Prieto, P. (2022). Expressive pragmatic skills at 3-4 years of age predict core linguistic abilities at 5-6 years of age. In Durrleman, S., Relationship between language development and other cognitive developments [Symposium]. X International Congress on Language Acquisition. Universitat de Girona, Girona, September 7-9.

Pronina, M., Hü bscher, I., Vilà-Giménez, I., & Prieto, P. (2022). Audiovisual Pragmatic Test: A pragmatic assessment instrument for Catalan speaking children. Oral presentation at Jornades de Lingüística Catalana a Viena, Vienna, Austria, June 20-21.

Pronina, M., Hübscher, I., Vilà-Giménez, I., & Prieto, P. (2022). Pragmatic prosody development from 3 to 8 years of age: A cross- sectional study in Catalan. Poster presentation at Speech Prosody 2022, Lisbon, Portugal, May 23-26.

2021

Pronina, M., Hübscher, I., Vilà-Giménez, I., & Prieto, P. (2021). 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, December 6-9.

Pronina, M., Hübscher, I., Vilà-Giménez, I., & Prieto, P. (2021). Anàlisi del desenvolupament de la prosòdia en nens i nenes catalanoparlants de 3 a 8 anys. [Oral presentation]. XIIè Workshop sobre la prosòdia del català, Universitat de Barcelona i Universitat de les Illes Balears, July 15.

Pronina, M., Hübscher, I., Holler, J., & Prieto, P. (2021). Conversational perspective-taking training improves preschoolers’ sociopragmatic skills. Poster presentation at International Association for the Study of Child Language Conference (IASCL), Philadelphia, USA, July 15-23.

Pronina, M., Castillo, E., Hübscher, I., & Prieto, P. (2021). 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, July 15-23.

Pronina, M., Prieto, P., Bischetti, L., & Bambini, V. (2021). 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, June 27-July 2.

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

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

Pronina, M., Prieto, P., Bischetti, L., & Bambini, V. (2021). 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, January 4-8.

Pronina, M., Hübscher, I., Vilà-Giménez, I., & Prieto, P. (2021). 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, January 27-29.

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.