The next ISGS-Catalonia talk is coming soon! Register here: forms.gle/feqstr3YvPnL...

🙋‍♀️If you can come in person, here is the location:
Room 52.737, Campus Poblenou, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona).

ISGS-Catalonia Online Lecture Series Registration for Online Talks and Mailing List

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Poster announcing an online talk by Prof. Sotaro Kita of the University of Warwick taking place on Friday 26th September at 12:30pm (GMT+2). The title of the talk is Gesture, Language, and Thought. It is part of the online lecture series organised by ISGS Catalonia a hub of the International Society for Gesture Studies. The talk is hosted by the Prosody and Gesture Study Group at University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona and is also broadcasted online. Registration is possible by clicking on a link in the post.

We are pleased to announce the establishment of ISGS-Catalonia, a hub of the International Society of Gesture studies (ISGS) based in Catalonia. Our inaugural event will feature alecture by Prof. Sotaro Kita on September 26, 2025 at 12:30 pm (GMT+2).

🎤 Inaugural lecture:
Gesture, Language and Thought – Prof. Sotaro Kita @sotarokita.bsky.social, University of Warwick

📅 September 26, 2025 | 12:30 pm (GMT+2)
📍 Universitat Pompeu Fabra & online (hybrid)

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Excited to share that ISGS-Catalonia is now officially established! 🎉😁 This new hub of the International Society of Gesture Studies (ISGS), coordinated by a steering group from 5 Catalan universities, aims to promote gesture research locally and internationally. 🌍
(website coming soon!)

Multidimensional Labeling of Gesture in Communication: the M3D Proposal - Corpus Pragmatics Communication is multimodal in that speakers use not only their voices, but also co-speech gestures to communicate. Recent insights suggest that gestural behavior has a strong association with prosodi...

So happy that the M3D gesture labeling system is finally published! A way to capture all the intricacies that come with studying gesture - check it out!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

❗️New Open Access paper out

📝 Preschoolers Mark Focus Types Through Multimodal Prominence: Further Evidence for the Precursor Role of Gestures

📕 Languages

👥 @saracoegom.bsky.social, Núria Esteve-Gibert, Pilar Prieto

🔗 www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/10...

If anyone is interested in using WhisperX to transcribe speech, this tutorial is for you!! In this tutorial, I provide an easy-to-use pipeline where you will get a time-aligned transcript as a Praat TextGrid file, a TSV file, and a subtitle file🙌
github.com/ShoAkamine/w...

Co-speech hand gestures are used to predict upcoming meaning. New paper by @marlijnterbekke.bsky.social , @lindadrijvers.bsky.social & @judithholler.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/09567976251331041

Here the direct link to the paper: link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Paper accepted in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review! | SPEAC | Hans Rutger Bosker Curious about how beat gestures can affect the words people hear in Spanish? Read it in: “From ‘I dance’ to ‘she danced’ with a flick of the hands: Audiovisual stress perception in Spanish”

Happy that my first post on bluesky is to announce a new published paper! Gestures, lexical stress, speech perception, what's not to love? 😎
hrbosker.github.io/news/25-04-1...