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I joined the URPP Language and Space in September 2018 as a postdoctoral investigator. My research focuses on human multimodal communication. In particular, I am interested in how different pragmatic factors influence the interplay between prosody, bodily signals and speech and how children learn to coordinate these different levels of representations present in multimodal face-to-face interaction in order to become pragmatically competent members of their community. Also, taking a cross-cultural perspective, my research focuses on possible similarities and differences in adults' and children's interpersonal positioning in social interactions.
Please also see my personal webpage: https://irishuebscher.weebly.com/ and my Research Gate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Iris_Huebscher
| 2014-2018 | PHD in linguistics at Department of Translation and Language Science at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Catalonia / Spain) |
| 2016 | Visiting scholar at the Max Planck of Psycholinguistics (Netherlands) |
| 2015 | Visiting scholar at the Ohio State University (USA) |
| 2012 | Cambridge CELTA (Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) |
| 2011-2012 | MA at Lancaster University (UK):General Linguistics (Master thesis: Apologising in Pluricentric German: A Comparison of Swiss German, German German and Austrian German) |
| 2008 | Exchange semester at University of New England (UNE) in Armidale, NSW, Australia: General Linguistics |
| 2007-2011 | BA at University of Zurich (CH): English Language and Linguistics,General History and Anthropology |
Pronina, M., Hübscher, I, Holler, J., Prieto, P. (2021). Enacting perspectives through body and verbal language in conversational trainings boosts children’s sociopragmatic abilities. Cognitive Development.
Hübscher, I., Wagner, L., & Prieto, P. (2020). Three-year-olds' infer polite stance from intonation and facial expression. Journal of Politeness Research Language Behaviour and Culture, 16(1). https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000919000126
Hübscher, I., Vincze, L., Prieto, P. (2019). Children’s signaling of their uncertain knowledge state: prosody, face and body cues come first. Journal of Language, Learning and Development, 15(4), 366-389. https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2019.1645669
Hübscher, I. & Prieto, P. (2019). Gestural and prosodic development act as sister systems and jointly pave the way for children’s sociopragmatic development. Frontiers in Psychology, 10. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01259
Hübscher, I., Garufi, M., Prieto, P. (2019). The development of polite stance in preschoolers: how prosody, gesture and body cues pave the way. Journal of Child Language. 46(5), 825-862. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000919000126
Armstrong, M., Esteve-Gibert, N., Hübscher, I., Igualada, A., & Prieto, P. (2018). Developmental and cognitive aspects of children’s disbelief comprehension through intonation and facial gesture. First Language, 38(6), 596–616. https://doi.org/10.1177/0142723718789278
Hübscher, I., Borràs, J., & Prieto, P. (2017). Prosodic mitigation characterizes Catalan formal speech: the Frequency Code reassessed. Journal of Phonetics, 65, 145-159.
Hübscher, I., Esteve-Gibert, N., Igualada, A., & Prieto, P. (2017). Intonation and gesture as bootstrapping devices in speaker uncertainty. First Language, 37(1), 24-41.
Hübscher, I., Wagner, L., & Prieto, P. (2019, online first). Three-year-olds' infer polite stance from intonation and facial expression. Journal of Politeness Research Language Behaviour and Culture, 16(1).
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).
Hübscher, I., Garufi, M., & Prieto, P. (2018). Preschoolers use prosodic mitigation strategies to encode polite stance. Proceedings of the Speech Prosody 2016. Poznań (Poland).
Armstrong, M. & Hübscher, I. (2018). Children’s development of internal state prosody. In P. Prieto & N. Esteve-Gibert (Eds.), Prosodic Development in First Language Acquisition. John Benjamins.
Hübscher, I., Wagner, L., & Prieto, P. (2016). Young children’s sensitivity to polite stance expressed through audiovisual prosody in requests. Proceedings of the Speech Prosody 2016. Boston, MA (USA).
2019
Pronina, M., Hübscher, I., Vilà-Gimenéz, I., Prieto, P. (2019). A new tool to assess pragmatic prosody in children: evidence from 3- to 4-year-olds. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS) 2019, August 5-9. (poster)
Pronina, M., Hübscher, I., Holler, J., Prieto, P. (2019). Teaching children to enact mental states and emotions improves their pragmatic skills. Child Language Symposium 2019, University of Sheffield, Sheffield (UK), July 10-12. (oral)
Pronina, M., Hübscher, I., Vilà-Gimenéz, I., Prieto, P. (2019). Assessing pragmatic prosody in 3- to 4-year-old children. 3rdPhonetics and Phonology in Europe. Università del Salento: Lecce (Italy), June 17-19. (poster)
Hübscher, I., Vincze, L., Prieto, P. (2019). Epistemic stance production in children and adults: an experimental approach. 16th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA). The Hong Kong Polytecnic University: Hong Kong (China), June 9-14. (oral)
Pronina, M., Hübscher, I, Holler, J. & Prieto, P. (2018). El efecto del entrenamiento multimodal en potenciar habilidades de toma de perspectiva y competencia pragmática. 1º Congreso Internacional sobre didáctica de la lengua infantil. Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU): Leioa (Spain), November 14.
Pronina, M., Hübscher, I., Vilà-Giménez, I., Prieto, P. (2018). Avaluaciò d'habilitats pragmàtiques i prosòdiques dels nens en edat preescolar. X Workshop sobre la prosòdia del català. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: Barcelona (Spain), June 28. (oral)
Hübscher, I., Garufi, M., Prieto, P. (2018). Preschoolers use prosodic mitigation strategies to encode polite stance. Speech prosody conference. Adam Mickiewicz University: Poznań (Poland), June 13-16. (oral)
Hübscher, I., Garufi, M., & Prieto, P. (2018). Catalan preschool children’s development of multimodal politeness. 8th International Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics. University of Sevilla: Sevilla (Spain), May 2-4. (oral)
Hübscher, I., Garufi, M. & Prieto, P. (2017). Preschoolers' multimodal production of politeness cues in requests. 15th International Pragmatics Conference. Belfast (Nothern Ireland), July 16-21. (oral)
Sánchez Conde, C., Hübscher, I. Vincze, L., Borràs-Comes, J. & Prieto, P. (2017). Gestural and prosodic attenuation strategies characterize formal register in Catalan requests. 15th International Pragmatics Conference. Belfast (Nothern Ireland), July 16-21. (oral)
Hübscher, I., Garufi, M. & Prieto, P. (2017). Adquisició de les peticions: una perspectiva multimodal. IX Workshop sobre la prosòdia del català. Universitat de Barcleona: Barcelona (Spain), July 4. (oral)
Sánchez-Conde, C., Hübscher, I. Vincze, L., Borràs-Comes, J. & Prieto, P. (2017). Estratègies d'atenuació gestual i pròsodica en el registre formal català. IX Workshop sobre la prosòdia del català. Universitat de Barcleona: Barcelona (Spain), July 4th. (oral)
Vincze, L., Hübscher, I. & Prieto, P. (2017). Anàlisi multimodal de la incertesa en català. IX Workshop sobre la prosòdia del català. Universitat de Barcleona: Barcelona (Spain), July 4th. (oral)
Hübscher, I. & Vincze, L. (2017). Young children’s communication and self-assessment of their (un)certainty. Language as a form of action conference. CNR, Rome (Italy), June 21-23. (poster)
Hübscher, I. & Prieto, P. (2017). How young children signal epistemic stance by means of gesture, face and prosody. iGesto’17. University of Porto, Porto (Portugal), Feb. 2-3. (oral)
Hübscher, I. Vinzce, L., & Prieto, P. (2016). Epistemic meaning is first communicated through gesture, face and prosody. Workshop on Audiovisual Speech Processing and Language Learning. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain), Nov. 28-29. (poster)
Hübscher, I., Wagner, L., Prieto, P. (2016). 3-year-olds’ sensitivity to a speaker’s polite stance through audio-visual prosody. VIIIth International Conference of Language Acquisition. University of the Balearic Islands, Mallorca (Spain), Sept. 7 -9. (oral)
Hübscher, I., Borràs-Comez, J., Prieto, P. (2016). Reassessment of the frequency code: prosody of polite requests in Catalan. Tone and Intonation in Europe (TIE). University of Kent: Canterbury (UK), Sept. 1-3. (oral)
Hübscher, I., Wagner, L., Prieto, P. (2016). Decoding the pragmatic meaning of polite requests through prosody and facial gestures: a study with 3-year-olds. Tone and Intonation in Europe (TIE). University of Kent: Canterbury (UK), Sept. 1-3. (poster)
Hübscher, I., & Prieto, P. (2016). Children’s early expression of epistemic stance through prosody and gesture. TIE Satellite Workshop on The role of prosody in conveying epistemic and evidential meaning. University of Kent: Canterbury (UK), Aug. 31. (oral)
González-Fuente, S., Hübscher, I., & Prieto, P. (2016) Does emotional information conveyed by gestures and prosody facilitate irony detection? 7th Conference of the International Society of Gesture Studies. Sorbonne Nouvelle University: Paris (France), July 18-22.
Hübscher, I. (2016) Atenuació prosòdica i cortesia en català. VIII Workshop sobre la prosòdia del català. Universitat Pompeu Fabra: Barcelona (Spain), July 3. (oral)
Hübscher, I., Borràs, J. & Prieto, P. (2016). Prosodic attenuation in formal register in Catalan. Congreso Internacional de Atenuación Linguistica: perspectivas semánticas y pragmáticas (CIAL). University of Valencia: Valencia (Spain). June 15 -17. (oral)
Hübscher, I., Wagner, L. & Prieto, P. (2016) Young children's sensitivity to polite stance expressed through audiovisual prosody in requests. Speech Prosody: Boston University: Boston (USA), May 31- June 3. (oral)
Armstrong, M., Esteve-Gibert, N., Hübscher, I. & Prieto, P. (2015). Catalan speaking children’s multimodal perception of disbelief. UConn-UMass-Smith Language Acquisition Workshop (UUSLAW): Amherst (USA), November 7, (oral)
Hübscher, I., Esteve-Gibert, N., Igualada, A., & Prieto, P. (2015) Young children decode the pragmatic meaning of uncertainty through prosody and gestures. 14th International Pragmatics Conference. University of Antwerp: Antwerp (Belgium), July 26-31. (poster)
Hübscher, I., Esteve-Gibert, N., Igualada, A. & Prieto, P. (2015) Young children’s awareness of speaker uncertainty through prosody and gesture. Satellite event of Phonetics and Phonology in Europe: Workshop on prosodic development, University of Cambridge: Cambridge (UK), June 28- 31. (oral)
Hübscher, I., Esteve-Gibert, N., Igualada, A., & Prieto, P. (2015) The acquisition of audiovisual cues to uncertainty. Workshop on Infant Language Development. Stockholm University: Stockholm (Sweden), June 10-12.
Hübscher, I., Borràs-Comes & Prieto, P. (2015). Correlats prosòdics de la cortesia en les peticions del català. VII Workshop sobre la prosòdia del català. Universitat de Barcleona: Barcelona (Spain), June 22. (oral)
Hübscher, I., Esteve-Gibert, N., Igualada, A.& Prieto, P. (2014) Como comprenden los niños la expresión de incertidumbre: la contribución de gesto y habla. VI Congreso Internacional de Fonética Experimental. University of Valencia: Valencia (Spain). November 5-7. (oral)
Hübscher, I., Esteve - Gibert, N., Igualada, A., & Prieto, P. (2014). The role of gestural and speech cues in children's understanding of uncertainty. Laboratory Approaches to Romance Phonology Conference. Université d’Aix-Marseille: Aix-en-Provence (France), September 3-5. (poster)
Armstrong, M. and Hübscher, I. (2014). Child comprehension of disbelief encoded through intonation and gesture. International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL). University of Amsterdam: Amsterdam (The Netherlands), July 14-18. (oral)
Hübscher, I., Esteve-Gibert, N., Igualada, A., & Prieto, P. (2014) El paper de la gestualitat i la prosòdia en l'adquisició de la incertesa. Workshop sobre la prosòdia del català VI. Universitat de Barcelona: Barcelona (Spain), June 26. (oral)
Hübscher, I., Esteve-Gibert, N., Igualada Pérez, A. & Prieto, P. (2014). The role of gestural and speech cues in children's understanding of uncertainty. Poster presentation at Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research X (EMLAR X). Utrecht University: Utrecht (Netherlands), April 14-16. (poster)
Invited Talks
Hübscher, I. (2020). Children's multimodal pragmatic development. Cognitive Science Center, University of Neuchâtel (Siwtzerland), February 27.
Hübscher, I. (2019). Multimodal politeness in face-to-face interaction. Universitat Pompeu Fabra: Barcelona (Catalunya). April 1st.
Hübscher, I. (2018). Catalan children's multimodal development: experimental evidence. Facultat de Ciències de l'Educació i Psicologia, Universitat Rovira i Virgili: Tarragona (Catalunya), November, 15.
Hübscher, I. (2017). Multimodal expression of epistemic stance by children and adults. UR-Ling Workshop, Universitat Pompeu Fabra: Bacrelona (Spain), June 15.
Hübscher, I. (2016). The role of prosody and (facial) gestures in children’s acquisition of stance marking. Multimodal Language and Cognition Lab. Max Planck Institute: Nijmegen (Netherlands), October, 6. Hübscher, I. (2015). 3-year-old's sensitivity to polite stance expressed through audiovisual prosody. Speer Lab. Ohio State University: Columbus (USA), November 13.
Hübscher, I. (2015). How prosody and gesture impact preschool children’s comprehension of uncertainty. UR-Ling Workshop, Universitat de Pompeu Fabra: Barcelona (Spain), May 21.
