Pronina, M. (2026, October 14). How gesture and prosody reveal differences in language development. Seminar series of Centre for Speech, Hearing, & Communication Research (CSHCR). Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff, Wales, UK.
Pronina, M. , & Florit-Pons, J. (2026, June 9). El Litmus Sentence Task Repetition: adaptacions i guies de correcció. ALLENCAM Talks. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
Pronina, M. (2026, March 10). Sociolinguistic factors of heritage intonation in Russian-speaking children in Catalonia. Seminar series of Cercle de Lingüística Aplicada (CLA). University of Lleida Lleida, Spain.
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, Apr. 29). The development of lexical, prosodic, and gestural imitation skills across typically developing and clinical child populations. Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
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. (2024, Jan. 8). A project on the acquisition of prosody in Russian heritage children: the role of society and family. Joint seminar of ALLENCAM and GrEPG. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
Pronina, M. (2023, Nov. 24). The linguistic vs. sociocognitive nature of expressive pragmatics: What is it about in the preschool years? Grup de Recerca Sociolingüística de les Illes Balears. University of the Balearic Islands. Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
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.
Pronina, M. , Mañas, I., & Vanrell, M.M. (2026, Oct. 28-30). Narrative skills in multilingual Russian-Catalan-Spanish-speaking children. [Poster presentation]. Many Paths to Language 2026. Max Planck Institute. Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Vanrell, M.M., Amengual Ripoll, C., & Pronina, M. (2026, Oct. 7-9). Family language policy in contexts of societal bilingualism. [Oral presentation]. Second International Symposium on Language Ideologies and Attitudes. Universitat de Lleida, Lleida, Spain.
Vilà-Giménez, I., Pronina, M., & Prieto, P. (2026, Sept. 9-11). Exploring children’s storytelling: Linking receptive vocabulary, narrative abilities, and gesture use in 7- to 9-year-olds. [Oral presentation]. 3rd International MultiModal Communication Symposium. University of Leuven. Leuven, Belgium.
Olcay, T., Pronina, M., Dallmann, N., Prieto, P., & Wagner, P. (2026, Sept. 9-11). Tapping to Speech Rhythm Reveals Language-Specific Encoding of Prominence. [Poster presentation]. 3rd International MultiModal Communication Symposium. University of Leuven. Leuven, Belgium.
Vanrell, M.M., Baills, F., & Pronina, M. (2026, July 10). Prosòdia i gest en l’ensenyament del català com a llengua addicional. [Oral presentation]. 17è Workshop sobre prosòdia, oralitat i gestualitat del català. Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Amengual Ripoll, C., Pronina, M., Vanrell, M.M. (2026, July 6-7). Actituds lingüístiques cap al català i el castellà en famílies russòfones. [Oral presentation]. Polítiques lingüístiques familiars i activació de l’ús de llengües minoritzades en la infància, l’adolescència i la joventut. Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain.
Pronina, M., Knyazev, S., & Vanrell, M.M. (2026, June 3-5). Individual differences in the acquisition of intonation in heritage multilingual children. [Oral presentation]. 2nd ELLRA Conference. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Pronina, M., Vanrell, M.M., Mañas, I. (2026, June 3-5). Narrative development of heritage Russian multilingual children in Catalan-speaking territories of Spain. [Oral presentation]. 2nd ELLRA Conference. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Pronina, M., Knyazev, S., & Vanrell, M.M. (2026, May 26-29). Acquisition of wh-question intonation in Russian heritage children. [Oral presentation]. Speech Prosody 2026, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
Pronina, M., Mañas, I., & Vanrell, M.M. (2026, January 26-29). Adquisición de las habilidades narrativas en los niños multilingües hablantes de ruso, español y catalán. [Oral presentation]. LIV Simposio Internacional de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística, Center for Human and Social Sciences, Madrid, Spain.
Pronina, M., Knyazev, S., & Vanrell, M.M. (2025, March 24-25). Question intonation in heritage Russian-speaking children. [Poster presentation]. Bilingualism Matters Symposium 2025, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Pronina, M., Knyazev, S., & Vanrell, M.M. (2025, March 14). Heritage question intonation in multilingual children. [Oral presentation]. 10th Spring Research Conference, International University of Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.
Pronina, M., Knyazev, S., & Vanrell, M.M. (2025, January 20-23). 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.
Vanrell, M.M., Pronina, M., Fernández-Soriano, O. & (2025, January 20-23). 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.
Dyachenko, S. V., Knyazev, S. V., Pronina, M.(2024, October 25–27). Preaccented vocalism in Rogovatoe. [Oral presentation]. International Scientific Conference Current Issues of Russian dialectology. Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Moscow, Russia.
Pronina, M., Florit-Pons, J., Coego, S., & Prieto, P. (2024, September 25-27). 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.
Vilà-Giménez, I., Pronina, M., & Prieto, P. (2024, September 25-27). 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.
Pronina, M., Knyazev, S., & Vanrell, M.M. (2024, September 6). 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.
Florit-Pons, J., Pronina, M., Coego, S., & Prieto, P. (2024, September 6). 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.
Florit-Pons, J., Pronina, M., Igualada, A., Prieto, P., & Norbury, C. (2024, July 15-19). 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.
Vilà-Giménez, I., Pronina, M., & Prieto, P. (2024, July 15-19). 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.
Pronina, M., Florit-Pons, J., Coego, S., & Prieto, P. (2024, July 9-11). Gesture, prosody, and sentence imitation in neurotypical and clinical preschool and primary school children. [Poster presentation]. Child Language Symposium. Newcastle University: Newcastle, UK.
Pronina, M., Vanrell, M. (2024, July 9-11). 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.
Pronina, M., Bambini, V., Bischetti, L., Ahufinger, N., Del Sette, P., Esteve-Gibert, N., Florit-Pons, J., Lecce, S., Prieto, P. (2024, July 9-11). Different linguistic and socio-cognitive predictors of pragmatics across modalities in 5–6-year-olds. [Oral presentation]. Child Language Symposium. Newcastle University: Newcastle, UK.
Pronina, M., Florit-Pons, J., Coego, S., & Prieto, P. (2024, May 7-9). 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.
Florit-Pons, J., Pronina, M., Igualada, A., Prieto, P., & C. Norbury (2023, October 25-27). Multimodal skills, but not motor skills, predict narrative and pragmatic skills in typically and non-typically developing preschoolers. [Poster presentation]. Many Paths to Language Conference, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Muñoz-Coego, S., Pronina, M., & Prieto, P. (2023, July 21). 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.
Esteve-Gibert, N., Ahufinger, N., Pronina, M., Florit-Pons, J., & Prieto, P. (2023, July 9-14). 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. The 18th International Pragmatics Conference. Université Libre de Bruxelles: Brussels, Belgium.
Pronina, M., Grofulovic, J., Castillo, E., Prieto, P., & Igualada., A. (2022, September 7-9). 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.
Pronina, M., Hübscher, I., Vilà-Giménez, I., & Prieto, P. (2022, September 7-9). 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 presentation]. X International Congress on Language Acquisition. Universitat de Girona, Girona.
Esteve-Gibert, N., Ahufinger, N., Pronina, M., Florit-Pons, J., & Prieto, P. (2022, September 7-9). 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 presentation]. X International Congress on Language Acquisition. Universitat de Girona, Girona.
Pronina, M., Hübscher, I., Vilà-Giménez, I., & Prieto, P. (2022, June 20-21). Audiovisual Pragmatic Test: A pragmatic assessment instrument for Catalan-speaking children. [Oral presentation]. Jornades de Lingüística Catalana a Viena, Vienna, Austria.
Pronina, M., Hübscher, I., Vilà-Giménez, I., & Prieto, P. (2022, May 23-26). Pragmatic prosody development from 3 to 8 years of age: A cross- sectional study in Catalan. [Poster presentation]. Speech Prosody 2022, Lisbon, Portugal.
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]. 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI), Sonderborg, Denmark.
Pronina, M., Hübscher, I., Vilà-Giménez, I., & Prieto, P. (2021, July 15). 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.
Pronina, M., Hübscher, I., Holler, J., & Prieto, P. (2021, July 15-23). Conversational perspective-taking training improves preschoolers’ sociopragmatic skills. [Poster presentation]. International Association for the Study of Child Language Conference (IASCL), Philadelphia, USA.
Pronina, M., Castillo, E., Hübscher, I., & Prieto, P. (2021, July 15-23). Multimodal imitation abilities correlate with narrative and sociopragmatic skills in preschool children. [Oral presentation]. International Association for the Study of Child Language Conference (IASCL), Philadelphia, USA.
Pronina, M., Prieto, P., Bischetti, L., & Bambini, V. (2021, June 27-July 2). Is it language or social cognition? The cognitive status of expressive pragmatics and prosody in young preschool children. [Oral presentation]. 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]. 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 presentation]. 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]. 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]. 18th Old World Conference on Phonology (OCP), University of the Balearic Islands, Eivissa, Illes Balears.
Pronina, M., Hübscher, I., Vilà-Giménez, I., & Prieto, P. (2019, August 5-9). A new tool to assess pragmatic prosody in children: Evidence from 3- to 4-year-olds. [Poster presentation]. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre: Melbourne, Australia.
Pronina, M., Hübscher, I., Vilà-Giménez, I., & Prieto, P. (2019, July 15). El desenvolupament de la prosòdia i la pragmàtica en nens catalanoparlants. [Oral presentation]. XIè Workshop sobre la prosòdia del català. Universitat Pompeu Fabra: Barcelona.
Pronina, M., Hübscher, I., Holler, J., & Prieto, P. (2019, July 10-12). Teaching children to enact mental states and emotions improves their pragmatic skills. [Oral presentation]. Child Language Symposium 2019. University of Sheffield: Sheffield, UK.
Pronina, M., Hübscher, I., Vilà-Giménez, I., & Prieto, P. (2019, June 17-19). Assessing pragmatic prosody in 3- to 4-year-old children. [Poster presentation]. 3rd Phonetics and Phonology in Europe conference. Hotel Tiziano: Lecce, Italy.
Pronina, M., Hübscher, I., Holler, J., & Prieto, P. (2018, November 14). El efecto del entrenamiento multimodal en potenciar habilidades de toma de perspectiva y competencia pragmática. [Oral presentation]. 1º Congreso Internacional sobre didáctica de la lengua infantil. Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU): Leioa (Bizkaia).
Pronina, M., Hübscher, I., Vilà-Giménez, I., & Prieto, P. (2018, June 28). Avaluació d’habilitats pragmàtiques i prosòdiques dels nens en edat preescolar. [Oral presentation]. Xè Workshop sobre la prosòdia del català. Universitat de Barcelona: Barcelona.