Prieto Vives, Pilar
Humanities
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
Phone +34932254899
Email pilar.prieto@upf.edu
Department Departament de Traducció i Ciències del Llenguatge
Address ROC BORONAT, Nº 138
Keywords
Prosody
Gesture
Semantics
Acquisition
Short biography
Pilar Prieto is an ICREA Research Professor at the Department of Translation and Language Sciences at UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona, Catalunya. After obtaining her doctoral degree in Romance Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Bell Laboratories (Murray Hill, New Jersey), where she continued working on the linguistic meaning of prosody across languages. Since 2008 she coordinates the "Prosodic Studies and Gesture Group" at the Department of Translation and Language Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.