Studies in progress
- Lopez-Garcia, P., Carrera-Sabaté, J., Bach-Marquès, J., & Borràs-Comes, J. (in preparation). Impact of gestures and body position on the quality of some Catalan vowels.
- Carrera-Sabaté, J., Castellà, C., Borràs-Comes, J., & Bach-Marquès, J. (in preparation). Physiological and linguistic observations of oral reading under stress and calm conditions: A comparative study with yoga nidra practice among university students in Barcelona.
- Mora, J. C., & Borràs-Comes, J. (in preparation). L2 vowel production: Acoustic measurements and perceptual judgements.
Studies under revision
- Prieto, P., Kushch, O., Borràs-Comes, J., Gluhareva, D., Pérez-Vidal, C. (submitted: 2022-11-11). Training ESL students to reproduce beat gestures in discourse leads to L2 pronunciation improvements. Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca ‘Julio de Urquijo’.
Scientific publications in press
- Carrera-Sabaté, J., Borràs-Comes, J., & Fernández Planas, A. M. (in press). Caracterització acústica de les vocals tòniques del català central i de l’espanyol septentrional en entrevistes radiofòniques. In W. Elvira-García, & P. Roseano (Eds.), Avances metodológicos en fonética y prosodia. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia.
- Martínez Celdrán, E., Romera Barrios, L., & Borràs-Comes, J. (in press). Ana María Fernández Planas: Algunos rasgos fónicos de su habla. In W. Elvira-García, & P. Roseano (Eds.), Avances metodológicos en fonética y prosodia. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia.
- Pons Moll, C., Pujol Molist, X., Artigas Comaposada, T., Borràs-Comes, J., Busquets de Jover, M., Hidalgo Plans, J., & Molas Bolaño, C. (in press). L’adaptació fonològica de manlleus plans i aguts amb concurrència de vocals mitjanes en el català de Barcelona: Estat de la qüestió i anàlisi experimental. Treballs de Sociolingüística Catalana, 34.
Scientific publications in JCR/SJR-indexed journals
- Serés, D., Borràs-Comes, J., & Espinal, M. T. (2024). Bridging inferences and reference management. Evidence from an experimental investigation in Catalan and Russian. Language and Speech, 67(1), 203–227. [doi: 10.1177/00238309231173337] [ISSN: 0023-8309] [Impact factor 2022: 1.773; Q2 Linguistics, Q3 Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology, Q3 Experimental Psychology] [SJR 2022: 0.772; Q1 Linguistics and Language, Q1 Speech and Hearing, Q1 Sociology and Political Science, Q2 Medicine (miscellaneous)]
- Elvira-García, W., Marrero-Aguiar, V., Borràs-Comes, J., Rubio-Guerra, S., Marques-Kiderle, S. K., Montagut, N., Faixa, C., Auge, L., Wagner Rodriguez, C., Grasso, S. M., Lleo, A., Illán-Gala, I., & Santos-Santos, M. A. (2023). Acoustic speech metrics that differentiate primary progressive aphasia variants depend on language typology. Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 19(S18: Clinical Manifestations), e080657. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.080657 [ISSN: 1552-5279] [Impact factor 2022: 5.256; Q1 Clinical Neurology, Q1 Neurosciences] [SJR 2022: 3.288; Q1 Cellular & Molecular Neurosc., Q1 Developmental Neuroscience, Q1 Epidemiology, Q1 Geriatrics & Gerontology, Q1 Health Policy, Q1 Neurology (clinical), Q1 Psychiatry & Mental Health]
- Tsiakmakis, E., Borràs-Comes, J., & Espinal, M. T. (2023). Greek non-negative min, epistemic modality, and positive bias. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 41, 1257–1285. [doi: 10.1007/s11049-022-09565-y] [ISSN: 0167-806X] [Impact factor 2022: 1.310; Q2 Linguistics] [SJR 2022: 2.156; Q1 Linguistics and Language]
- Tsiakmakis, E., Borràs-Comes, J., & Espinal, M. T. (2023). On the distribution and interpretation of voice in Greek anticausatives. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, Article 1068058. [doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1068058] [ISSN: 1664-1078] [Impact factor 2022: 3.832; Q1 Linguistics] [SJR 2022: 0.891; Q1 Linguistics and Language]
- Hübscher, I., Sánchez, C., Borràs-Comes, J., Vincze, L., & Prieto, P. (2023). Multimodal mitigation: How facial and body cues index politeness in Catalan requests. Journal of Politeness Research, 19(1), 1–29. [doi: 10.1515/pr-2020-0033] [ISSN: 1612-5681] [Impact factor 2022: 1.000; Q3 Linguistics] [SJR 2022: 0.791; Q1 Linguistics and Language, Q1 Cultural Studies, Q2 Communication, Q2 Social Psychology]
- Li, F., Borràs-Comes, J., & Espinal, M. T. (2022). On the interpretation of response particles ‘méi(yǒu)’ and ‘bù’ to negative polar questions in Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Pragmatics, 200, 267–281. [doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2022.08.013] [ISSN: 0378-2166] [Impact factor: 1.558; Q2 Linguistics] [SJR: 1.085; Q1 Linguistics and Language, Q2 Artificial Intelligence]
- Etxeberria, U., Tubau, S., Borràs-Comes, J., & Espinal, M. T. (2022). Polarity Items in Basque. Experimental evidence for their existential reading. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 40, 485–504. [doi: 10.1007/s11049-021-09513-2] [ISSN: 0167-806X] [Impact factor: 1.310; Q2 Linguistics] [SJR: 2.156; Q1 Linguistics and Language]
- Tsiakmakis, E., Borràs-Comes, J., & Espinal, M. T. (2021). Greek polydefinites revisited: Polydefiniteness as resumed relative clause modification. Journal of Greek Linguistics, 21, 151–190. [doi: 10.1163/15699846-02101001] [ISSN: 1566-5844] [SJR: 0.150; Q3 Linguistics and Language]
- Tsiakmakis, E., Borràs-Comes, J., & Espinal, M. T. (2021). The interpretation of plural mass nouns in Greek. Journal of Pragmatics, 181, 209–226. [doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2021.05.017] [ISSN: 0378-2166] [Impact factor: 1.860; Q2 Linguistics] [SJR: 0.930; Q1 Linguistics and Language, Q2 Artificial Intelligence]
- Aguilar, L., & Borràs-Comes, J. (2020). Alteraciones de la declinación y el campo tonal en el habla de personas con Síndrome de Down. Estudios de Fonética Experimental, 29, 11–33. [link (issue)] [ISSN: 1575-5533] [SJR: 0.178; Q2 Language and Linguistics, Q2 Linguistics and Language]
- Li, F., Borràs-Comes, J., & Espinal, M. T. (2019). Mismatches in the interpretation of fragment negative expressions in Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Pragmatics, 152, 28–45. [doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2019.07.017] [ISSN: 0378-2166] [Impact factor: 1.350; Q2 Linguistics] [SJR: 0.754; Q1 Language and Linguistics, Q1 Linguistics and Language, Q2 Artificial Intelligence]
- Borràs-Comes, J., Kiagia, E., & Prieto, P. (2019). Epistemic intonation and epistemic gesture are mutually co-expressive: empirical results from two intonation-gesture matching tasks. Journal of Pragmatics, 150, 39–52. [doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2019.07.004] [ISSN: 0378-2166] [Impact factor: 1.350; Q2 Linguistics] [SJR: 0.754; Q1 Language and Linguistics, Q1 Linguistics and Language, Q2 Artificial Intelligence]
- Serés, D., Borràs-Comes, J., & Borik, O. (2019). Interplay between Position and Interpretation: An Experimental Study of Russian Bare Plurals. Revue Roumaine de Linguistique - Romanian Review of Linguistics, 64(2), 163–177. [link (issue)] [ISSN: 0035-3957] [Impact factor: 0.250; Q4 Linguistics] [SJR: 0.171; Q2 Language and Linguistics, Q2 Linguistics and Language]
- Li, F., Borràs-Comes, J., & Espinal, M. T. (2018). Single negation interpretations in sentences with multiple negative expressions in Mandarin Chinese. An experimental investigation. Lingua, 210–211(1), 65–78. [doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2018.04.009] [ISSN: 0024-3841] [Impact factor: 0.963; Q2 Linguistics] [SJR: 0.481; Q1 Language and Linguistics, Q1 Linguistics and Language]
- Prieto, P., & Borràs-Comes, J. (2018). Question intonation contours as dynamic epistemic operators. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 36(2), 563–586. [doi: 10.1007/s11049-017-9382-z] [ISSN: 0167-806X] [Impact factor: 1.231; Q2 Linguistics] [SJR: 0.840; Q1 Language and Linguistics, Q1 Linguistics and Language]
- Tubau, S., Déprez, V., Borràs-Comes, J., & Espinal, M. T. (2018). How speakers interpret the negative markers no and no...pas in Catalan. Probus, 30(1), 121–167. [doi: 10.1515/probus-2017-0008] [ISSN: 0921-4771] [Impact factor: 0.435; Q4 Linguistics] [SJR: 0.255; Q2 Language and Linguistics, Q2 Linguistics and Language]
- Llanes-Coromina, J., Vilà-Giménez, I., Kushch, O., Borràs-Comes, J., & Prieto, P. (2018). Beat gestures help preschoolers recall and comprehend discourse information. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 172(8), 168–188. [doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2018.02.004] [ISSN: 0022-0965] [Impact factor: 2.980; Q2 Psychology: Developmental, Q2 Psychology: Experimental] [SJR: 1.978; Q1 Developmental and Educational Psychology; Q1 Experimental and Cognitive Psychology]
- Etxeberria, U., Tubau, S., Déprez, V., Borràs-Comes, J., & Espinal, M. T. (2018). Relating (un)acceptability to interpretation. Experimental investigations on negation. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, Article 2370. [doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02370] [ISSN: 1664-1078] [Impact factor: 2.129; Q2 Psychology: Multidisciplinary] [SJR: 0.997; Q1 Psychology (miscellaneous)]
- Hübscher, I., Borràs-Comes, J., & Prieto, P. (2017). Prosodic mitigation characterizes Catalan formal speech: The Frequency Code reassessed. Journal of Phonetics, 65, 145–159. [doi: 10.1016/j.wocn.2017.07.001] [ISSN: 0095-4470] [Impact factor: 1.519; Q1 Linguistics] [SJR: 1.109; Q1 Language and Linguistics, Q1 Linguistics and Language, Q1 Speech and Hearing]
- Esteve-Gibert, N., Borràs-Comes, J., Asor, E., Swerts, M., & Prieto, P. (2017). The timing of head movements: the role of prosodic heads and edges. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 141(6), 4727–4739. [doi: 10.1121/1.4986649] [ISSN: 0001-4966] [Impact factor: 1.605; Q3 Acoustics (SCI), Q3 Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology (SCI)] [SJR: 0.695; Q1 Acoustics and Ultrasonics, Q2 Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)]
- González, M., Roseano, P., Borràs-Comes, J., & Prieto, P. (2017). Epistemic and evidential marking in discourse: effects of register and debatability. Lingua, 186–187(1), 68–87. [doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2014.11.008] [ISSN: 0024-3841] [Impact factor: 0.864; Q2 Linguistics] [SJR: 0.519; Q1 Language and Linguistics, Q1 Linguistics and Language]
- Roseano, P., González, M., Borràs-Comes, J., & Prieto, P. (2016). Communicating epistemic stance: How speech and gesture patterns reflect epistemicity and evidentiality. Discourse Processes, 53(3), 135–174. [doi: 10.1080/0163853X.2014.969137] [ISSN: 0163-853X] [Impact factor: 2.074; Q2 Psychology: Educational, Q2 Psychology: Experimental] [SJR: 1.247; Q1 Communication, Q1 Language and Linguistics, Q1 Linguistics and Language]
- Thorson, J., Borràs-Comes, J., Crespo-Sendra, V., Vanrell, M. M., & Prieto, P. (2015). The acquisition of melodic form and meaning in yes-no interrogatives by Catalan and Spanish speaking children. Probus, 27(1), 73–99. [doi: 10.1515/probus-2013-0019] [ISSN: 0921-4771] [Impact factor: 0.533; Q3 Linguistics] [SJR: 0.895; Q1 Language and Linguistics, Q1 Linguistics and Language]
- Borràs-Comes, J., Sichel-Bazin, R., & Prieto, P. (2015). Vocative intonation preferences are sensitive to politeness factors. Language and Speech, 58(1), 68–83. [doi: 10.1177/0023830914565441] [ISSN: 0023-8309] [Impact factor: 1.041; Q2 Linguistics, Q4 Psychology: Experimental, Q4 Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology (SCI)] [SJR: 0.795; Q1 Language and Linguistics, Q1 Linguistics and Language, Q1 Sociology and Political Science, Q2 Speech and Hearing, Q2 Medicine (miscellaneous)]
- Prieto, P., Puglesi, C., Borràs-Comes, J., Arroyo, E., & Blat, J. (2015). Exploring the contribution of prosody and gesture to the perception of focus using an animated agent. Journal of Phonetics, 49(1), 41–54. [doi: 10.1016/j.wocn.2014.10.005] [ISSN: 0095-4470] [Impact factor: 1.227; Q1 Linguistics] [SJR: 1.086; Q1 Language and Linguistics, Q1 Linguistics and Language, Q1 Speech and Hearing]
- Borràs-Comes, J., Vanrell, M. M., & Prieto, P. (2014). The role of pitch range in establishing intonational contrasts. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 44(1), 1–20. [doi: 10.1017/S0025100313000303] [ISSN: 0025-1003] [Impact factor: 0.515; Q3 Linguistics] [SJR: 0.575; Q1 Anthropology, Q1 Language and Linguistics, Q1 Linguistics and Language, Q2 Speech and Hearing]
- Borràs-Comes, J., Kaland, C., Prieto, P., & Swerts, M. (2014). Audiovisual correlates of interrogativity: a comparative analysis of Catalan and Dutch. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 38(1), 53–66. [doi: 10.1007/s10919-013-0162-0] [ISSN: 0191-5886] [Impact factor: 1.974; Q2 Psychology: Social] [SJR: 1.053; Q1 Social Psychology]
- Borràs-Comes, J., & Prieto, P. (2014). The acquisition of coda consonants by Catalan and Spanish children: effects of prominence and frequency of exposure. Probus, 26(1), 59–82. [doi: 10.1515/probus-2013-0001] [ISSN: 0921-4771] [Impact factor: 0.529; Q3 Linguistics] [SJR: 0.608; Q1 Language and Linguistics, Q1 Linguistics and Language]
- Prieto, P., Borràs-Comes, J., Tubau, S., & Espinal, M. T. (2013). Prosody and gesture constrain the interpretation of double negation. Lingua, 131(7), 136–150. [doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2013.02.008] [ISSN: 0024-3841] [Impact factor: 0.639; Q2 Linguistics] [SJR: 1.095; Q1 Language and Linguistics, Q1 Linguistics and Language]
- Borràs-Comes, J., Costa-Faidella, J., Prieto, P., & Escera, C. (2012). Specific neural traces for intonational discourse categories as revealed by human-evoked potentials. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24(4), 843–853. [doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_00147] [ISSN: 0898-929X] [Impact factor: 4.493; Q1 Neurosciences (SCI), Q1 Psychology: Experimental] [SJR: 3.601; Q1 Cognitive Neuroscience, Q1 Language and Linguistics]
- Borràs-Comes, J., & Prieto, P. (2011). ‘Seeing tunes.’ The role of visual gestures in tune interpretation. Laboratory Phonology, 2(2), 355–380. [doi: 10.1515/labphon.2011.013] [ISSN: 1868-6354] [First impact factor in 2015: 0.667; Q3 Linguistics]
Scientific publications in other journals
- Carrera-Sabaté, J., Lopez-Garcia, P., Cols Aiguadé, C., & Borràs-Comes, J. (2023). Cos i pronúncia: Un tàndem imprescindible? El cos com a eina facilitadora per millorar la pronúncia del català. Revista del Congrés Internacional de Docència Universitària i Innovació (CIDUI), 6, Article 418066. https://raco.cat/index.php/RevistaCIDUI/article/view/418066 [ISSN: 2385-6203]
- Serés, D., Borràs-Comes, J., & Espinal, M. T. (2021). Uniqueness in languages with and without articles: Catalan vs. Russian. Beyond Philology, 18(3), 163–195. [doi: 10.26881/bp.2021.3.06] [link] [ISSN: 1732-1220]
- Borràs-Comes, J., Rapesta, B., Jiménez, R., & Escobar Urmeneta, C. (2017). El desenvolupament de la competència discursiva en llengua estrangera en un entorn ICLES: L’efectivitat de l’estratègia Guideway. Temps d’Educació, 52, 61–77. [link] [ISSN: 0214-7351]
- Borràs-Comes, J., Arnau, L., Flecha, A., & Escobar Urmeneta, C. (2017). L’ICLES i el rendiment acadèmic dels aprenents a l’educació terciària: El cas del Grau d’Educació Primària de la UAB. Temps d’Educació, 52, 79–89. [link] [ISSN: 0214-7351]
- Llaó Borràs, J., & Borràs-Comes, J. (2012). Morfologia verbal i anivellament dialectal: el cas del present de subjuntiu calero. Beceroles, 5, 79–85. [link] [ISSN: 1697-6770]
- Borràs-Comes, J., & Prieto, P. (2011). L'adquisició de les codes en català i en castellà. Estudis Romànics, 33, 23–51. Barcelona: Institut d'Estudis Catalans. [doi: 10.2436/20.2500.01.71] [ISSN: 0211-8572]
- Prieto, P., Borràs-Comes, J., Crespo-Sendra, V., Thorson, J., & Vanrell, M. M. (2011). Entonación y pragmática en los enunciados interrogativos del español en un corpus de habla dirigida a niños. Oralia, 14, 227–255. [link] [ISSN: 1575-1430]
- Borràs-Comes, J., & Prieto, P. (2010). La importància del paper de la prominència i de la freqüència en l'adquisició de les codes sil·làbiques. Interlingüística, 20. Barcelona: Asociación de Jóvenes Lingüistas. [link] [ISSN: 1134-8941]
- Borràs-Comes, J. (2010). Notes sobre el parlar de Villores. Beceroles, 4, 89–103. [link] [ISSN: 1697-6770]
Scientific publications in books
- Carrera-Sabaté, J., & Borràs-Comes, J. (2023). Ieisme i lleisme a Barcelona: Trenta anys després de Lídia Pons 1992. In Miscel·lània Lídia Pons, 2 (pp. 271–302). Publicacions de l’Abadia de Montserrat. [ISBN: 9788491912941]
- Carrera-Sabaté, J., Castellà, C., & Borràs-Comes, J. (2023). Ioga nidra, lectura en veu alta i corporeïtat. In J. Carrera-Sabaté, A. Soler Llopart, J. Bach-Marquès, X. Àlvarez Urbaneja, & C. Cols Aguadé (Eds.), Atenció plena, cos, aprenentatge i comunicació: Oralitat, paraula i pronúncia (pp. 137–149). Graó. [ISBN: 9788419788740, 9788419788832]
- Borik, O., Borràs-Comes, J., & Serés, D. (2020). Preverbal (in)definites in Russian: An experimental study. In: K. Balogh, A. Latrouite & R. D. Van Valin, Jr. (Eds.), Nominal anchoring: Specificity, definiteness, and article systems (pp. 51–80). Language Science Press. [doi: 10.5281/zenodo.4049681] [ISBN: 9783961102846]
- Borràs-Comes, J., & Escobar Urmeneta, C. (2018). El desarrollo de la competencia discursiva en lengua extranjera en un entorno ICLES: La efectividad de la estrategia GUIDEWAY. In: C. Escobar Urmeneta & L. Arnau (Eds.), Los retos de la internacionalización de los grados universitarios en el contexto del Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior (pp. 115–133). Síntesis. [ISBN: 9788491710998]
- Escobar Urmeneta, C., Arnau, L., & Borràs-Comes, J. (2018). Rendimiento académico y estudios universitarios con docencia en inglés (DUI): El caso del grado en Educación Primaria de la UAB. In: C. Escobar Urmeneta & L. Arnau (Eds.), Los retos de la internacionalización de los grados universitarios en el contexto del Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior (pp. 135–146). Síntesis. [ISBN: 9788491710998]
- Prieto, P., Borràs-Comes, J., Cabré, T., Crespo-Sendra, V., Mascaró, I., Roseano, P., Sichel-Bazin, R., & Vanrell, M. M. (2015). Intonational phonology of Catalan and its dialectal varieties. In: S. Frota & P. Prieto (Eds.), Intonation in Romance (pp. 9–62). Oxford University Press. [doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199685332.001.0001] [ISBN: 9780199685332]
- Espinal, M. T., Tubau, S., Borràs-Comes, J., & Prieto, P. (2015). Double Negation in Catalan and Spanish. Interaction between Syntax and Prosody. In: P. Larrivée & C. Lee (Eds.), Negation and polarity: Cognitive and experimental perspectives (pp. 145–176). Springer. [doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-17464-8_7] [ISBN: 9783319174631]
- Borràs-Comes, J. (2013). Català nord-occidental. In: P. Prieto & T. Cabré (Eds.), L’entonació dels dialectes catalans (pp. 101–126). Publicacions de l’Abadia de Montserrat. [ISBN: 9788498836219]
Conference proceedings
- Tsiakmakis, E., Borràs-Comes, J., & Espinal, M. T. (2022). Greek polydefinites at the interfaces. In: S. Featherstone, R. Hörnig, A. Konietzko & S. von Wietersheim (Eds.), Linguistic Evidence 2020 Proceedings: Linguistic Theory Enriched by Experimental Data (pp. 217–240). Universität Tübingen. [link] [ISBN: --]
- Labèrnia, A., & Borràs-Comes, J. (2018). ‘Tothom qui’ o ‘tothom que’? Reflexió sobre la implantació d’una norma sintàctica de Fabra (1933). In Miquel Àngel Pradilla Cardona (Ed.), Comunitat lingüística i norma: Actes del IV Col·loqui internacional “La lingüística de Pompeu Fabra” (Tarragona, Nov 18-20, 2013), pp. 325–336. Institut d’Estudis Catalans. [link] [ISBN: 9788499654157]
- Borràs-Comes, J. (2018). Metodología experimental y tratamiento estadístico. Aplicación al estudio de la prosodia del catalán. In Lorea Unamuno, Asier Romero, Aintzane Etxebarria and Aitor Iglesias (Eds.), «Linguistic Variation in the Basque Education III / Euskararen bariazioa eta bariazioaren irakaskuntza III», Proceedings of the 3th Annual International Conference on Linguistic Variation in the Basque Language and Education [EUDIA6] (Leioa, Jun 9, 2017), pp. 14–28. [link] [ISBN: 9788490824641]
- Borràs-Comes, J., & Prieto, P. (2015). Intonation and the pragmatics of yes-no questions in Central Catalan. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (Glasgow, Aug 10-14, 2015). [link] [ISSN: 241-0669] [ISBN: 9780852619414]
- Esteve-Gibert, N., Borràs-Comes, J., Swerts, M., & Prieto, P. (2014). Head gesture timing is constrained by prosodic structure. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Speech Prosody (Dublin, May 20-23, 2014). [link] [ISSN: 2333-2042]
- Borràs-Comes, J. (2011). L’entonació del canareu. Una primera descripció. Actes del III Congrès d'Història d'Alcanar (Alcanar, Nov 12-14, 2010), pp. 443–447. Ajuntament d'Alcanar. [link] [ISBN: 9788492322350]
- Borràs-Comes, J., Puglesi, C., & Prieto, P. (2011). Audiovisual competition in the perception of counter-expectational questions. In Giampiero Salvi, Jonas Beskow, Olov Engwall and Samer Al Moubayed (Eds.): Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing 2011 [AVSP 2011] (Volterra, Aug 31 - Sep 3, 2011), pp. 43-46. KTH Computer Science and Communication, Department of Speech Music and Hearing. [ISBN: 97849905409]
- Prieto, P., Puglesi, C., Borràs-Comes, J., Arroyo, E., & Blat, J. (2011). Crossmodal prosodic and gestural contribution to the perception of contrastive focus. In Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association [Interspeech2011] (Florence, Aug 27-31, 2011), pp. 977–980. [ISBN: 9781618392701]
- Borràs-Comes, J., Roseano, P., Vanrell, M. M., Chen, A., & Prieto, P. (2011). Perceiving uncertainty: facial gestures, intonation, and lexical choice. In Caro Kirchhof, Zofia Malisz and Petra Wagner (Eds.): Proceedings of the 2n Conference on Gesture and Speech in Interaction [GESPIN 2011] (Bielefeld, Sep 5-7, 2011).
- Prieto, P., & Borràs-Comes, J. (2011). Mètodes experimentals per a l’anàlisi de la prosòdia. In Gotzon Aurrekoetxea and Iñaki Gaminde (Eds.): Prosodiaz eta Hezkuntzaz. I. Jardunaldiak - I Jornadas sobre Prosodia y Educación (pp. 29–46). Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea. [ISBN: 9788498605525]
- Borràs-Comes, J., Vanrell, M. M., & Prieto, P. (2010). The role of pitch range in establishing intonational contrasts in Catalan. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Speech Prosody (Chicago, May 11-14 2010), Article 100103. [ISBN: 9780557519316]
Peer-reviewed presentations at international conferences (last 10 years)
- Lopez-Garcia, P., Carrera-Sabaté, J., & Borràs-Comes, J. (2023). Incidences acoustiques des positions et des mouvements corporels sur la qualité des voyelles en français. 4e Colloque francophone international (FRANCONTRASTE). Zagreb, October 26–28. [Oral]
- Carrera-Sabaté, J., Lopez-Garcia, P., Bach-Marquès, J., & Borràs-Comes, J. (2023). Gestualidad y posición corporal y cualidad de las vocales: Impacto de las posturas y los gestos en el vocalismo del catalán. IX Congreso Internacional de Fonética Experimental (CIFE 2023). Universidade de Vigo: Vigo, Jun 23-26.
- Serés, D., Borràs-Comes, J., & Espinal, M. T. (2022). The form of discourse-new subject NPs in Russian as compared to Catalan: an experimental investigation. Psycholinguistics of Slavic Languages 2022 (PsychoSlav2022). University of Tübingen: Tübingen, July 14-16.
- Tsiakmakis, E., Borràs-Comes, J., & Espinal, M. T. (2022). Greek ‘min’-questions are biased questions. Annual conference of the Centre for Excellence in Estonian Studies: “Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity in Language and Culture”. Estonian Literary Museum, University of Tartu: Tartu, May 12-13.
- Tsiakmakis, E., Borràs-Comes, J., & Espinal, M. T. (2020). Greek polydefinites at the interfaces. LE2020: Linguistic Evidence 2020. Universität Tübingen: Tübingen, Feb 13-15. [Poster]
- Aguilar, L., & Borràs-Comes, J. (2020). Prosodia atípica en el habla de personas con Síndrome de Down: la manifestación de la declinación y el campo tonal. XLIX Simposio Internacional de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística. Universitat Rovira i Virgili: Tarragona, Jan 21-24. [Oral]
- Li, F., Borràs-Comes, J., & Espinal, M. T. (2018). Mismatches in the interpretation of sentences with multiple negative expressions in Mandarin Chinese. An experimental investigation. MISM4TCHES 2018: Functional Categories and Semantic Mismatches. Universidad de Alcalá: Alcalá de Henares, Oct 4-5. [Oral]
- Li, F., Borràs-Comes, J., & Espinal, M. T. (2018). Multiple negative expressions and Single Negation in Mandarin Chinese. 10th International Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL-10). Università degli Studi di Milano / Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca: Milano, Sep 28-29. [Oral]
- Serés, D., Borràs-Comes, J., & Borik, O. (2018). An interplay between position and interpretation. An experimental study of Russian bare plurals. AICED-20: The 20th Annual International Conference of the English Department. Universitatea din București: Bucharest, Jun 7-9. [Oral]
- Escobar Urmeneta, C., & Borràs-Comes, J. (2018). The impact of English-medium instruction (EMI) vs. Catalan-medium instruction (CMI) on the learning of Catalan and English in preservice teacher education. AESLA 2018: 36 Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada. Universidad de Cádiz: Cádiz, Apr 19-21. [Oral]
- Llanes-Coromina, J., Vilà-Giménez, I., Kushch, O., Borràs-Comes, J., & Prieto, P. (2017). Do beat gestures and prosodic prominence enhance preschoolers' recall and comprehension of discourse. AMLaP 2017: Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing. Lancaster University: Lancaster, Sep 7-9. [Poster]
- Kiagia, E., Borràs-Comes, J., & Prieto, P. (2017). Mutual influences between epistemic intonation and co-speech gesture in online language comprehension. AMLaP 2017: Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing. Lancaster University: Lancaster, Sep 7-9. [Poster]
- Llanes-Coromina, J., Vilà-Giménez, I., Kushch, O., Borràs-Comes, J., & Prieto, P. (2017). Prominence in speech and gesture help preschoolers to recall and comprehend information. 14th International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL 2017). University Lumière Lyon 2: Lyon, Jul 17-21. [Poster]
- Sánchez, 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 (IPrA2017). International Pragmatics Association: Belfast, Jul 16-21. [Oral]
- Llanes-Coromina, J., Vilà-Giménez, I., Kushch, O., Borràs-Comes, J., & Prieto, P. (2017). Do beat gestures help preschool children to recall and understand discourse information? Language as a Form of Action Conference. DComm / Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche: Roma, Jun 21-23. [Poster]
- Kiagia, E., Borràs-Comes, J., & Prieto, P. (2016). Mutual influences between epistemic intonation and co-speech gesture in online language comprehension. Beyond Language Learning. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Universitat de Barcelona: Barcelona, Sep 29-30. [Poster]
- Hübscher, I., Borràs-Comes, J., & Prieto, P. (2016). Reassessment of the frequency code: prosody of polite requests in Catalan. 7th conference on Tone and Intonation in Europe (TIE7). University of Kent: Canterbury, Sep 1-3. [Poster]
- Kiagia, E., Borràs-Comes, J., & Prieto, P. (2016). Mutual influences between epistemic prosody and facial expressions in language comprehension. 7th conference on Tone and Intonation (TIE7); satellite workshop “The role of prosody in conveying epistemic and evidential meaning” (Aug 31). University of Kent: Canterbury, Kent, Sep 1-3. [Oral]
- Tubau, S., Borràs-Comes, J., Déprez, V., & Espinal, M. T. (2016). Some empirical facts on the interpretation of no and no...pas in Catalan. Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2016). University of Naples Federico II: Naples, Aug 31 - Sep 3. [Oral]
- Hübscher, I., Borràs-Comes, J., & Prieto, P. (2016). Prosodic politeness cues in formal register in Catalan. Congreso Internacional de Atenuación Lingüística: perspectivas semánticas y pragmáticas (CIAL). Universitat de València: València, Jun 15-18. [Oral]
- Borràs-Comes, J., & Prieto, P. (2015). Intonation and the pragmatics of yes-no questions in Central Catalan. 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2015). University of Glasgow: Glasgow, Aug 10-14. [Oral]
- Borràs-Comes, J., & Prieto, P. (2015). Question intonation contours as dynamic and gradient epistemic operators. Phonetics and Phonology in Europe 2015. University of Cambridge: Cambridge, Jun 29-30. [Oral]
- Esteve-Gibert, N., Borràs-Comes, J., Asor, E., Swerts, M., & Prieto, P. (2015). Multimodal prominence in head gestures (or how accent and phrasing influence the gesture timing). International Conference on “Prominence in Language”. Universität zu Köln: Köln, Jun 15-17. [Oral]
- Borràs-Comes, J., & Prieto, P. (2014). Significado entonativo y pragmática de las interrogativas totales en catalán central. VI CIFE, Congreso Internacional de Fonética Experimental. Universitat de València: València, Nov 5-7. [Oral]
- Borràs-Comes, J., & Prieto, P. (2014). Intonational meaning and the pragmatics of yes-no questions in Central Catalan. Seventh Conference on Laboratory Approaches to Romance Phonology (LARP7). Laboratoire Parole et Langage: Aix-en-Provence, Sep 3-5. [Oral]
- Esteve-Gibert, N., Borràs-Comes, J., Swerts, M., & Prieto, P. (2014). Head gesture timing is constrained by prosodic structure. Seventh International Conference on Speech Prosody. Trinity College Dublin: Dublin, May 20-23. [Oral]
- Borràs-Comes, J., Sichel-Bazin, R., & Prieto, P. (2013). Social and contextual factors constrain pitch contour selection in vocatives. Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia 2013. Universidade de Lisboa: Lisbon, Jun 25-26. [Oral]
- Labèrnia, A., & Borràs-Comes, J. (2013). Tothom qui o tothom que? Reflexió sobre la implantació d’una norma sintàctica de Fabra. IV Col·loqui internacional “La lingüística de Pompeu Fabra”. Universitat Rovira i Virgili: Tarragona, Nov 18-20. [Oral]
- Espinal, M. T., Tubau, S., Borràs-Comes, J., & Prieto, P. (2013). Prosody and metalinguistic Double Negation in Catalan and Spanish. 19th International Congress of Linguists. Workshop: Negation and Polarity: Interfaces and Cognition. Université de Genève: Geneva, Jul 22-27. [Oral]
Invited talks and courses taught
- Experimental Linguistics using R. Postgraduate Seminar. U. Pompeu Fabra: Barcelona, 2020. Contact: Dra. Pilar Prieto.
- Quantitative Methods in Language Research. Postgraduate Seminar. U. Pompeu Fabra: Barcelona, 10 hores (18 Apr, 25 Apr, 2 May, 9 May), 2018. Contact: Dra. Pilar Prieto.
- Metodología experimental y tratamiento estadístico: aplicación al estudio de la prosodia del catalán. Invited talk at the 3th Annual International Conference on Linguistic Variation in the Basque Language and Education (EUDIA6). Escuela Universitaria de Magisterio de Bilbao - UPV/EHU: Leioa, Jun 9, 2017. Contact: Dr. Asier Romero.
- L’anàlisi estadística mitjançant GLMM i la seva aplicació als estudis experimentals de l’adquisició del llenguatge. U. Pompeu Fabra (21 Jul 2014, 3 hores). Contact: Dra. Pilar Prieto.
- Conceptes d’anàlisi estadística i disseny experimental. Aplicació a l’avaluació de l’ús lingüístic. U. Pompeu Fabra (12 Dec 2013, 2 hores). Contact: Dr. Joan Costa.
- Anàlisi amb Phon de bases de dades orals de produccions d'anglès com a L2. U. de les Illes Balears (9-10 Apr 2013, 4 hores). Contact: Dra. Lucrècia Rallo.
- Implementació d'experiments amb E-Prime. U. Pompeu Fabra (17-18 Dec 2012, 6 hores). Contact: Dra. Aurora Bel.
- Anàlisi amb Phon de bases de dades orals de produccions d'anglès com a L2. U. de les Illes Balears (17-18 Oct 2012, 6 hores). Contact: Dra. Lucrècia Rallo.
- El sistema Cat_ToBI per a l'etiquetatge prosòdic del català. Invited talk at the I. Jardunaldiak Prosodiaz eta Hezkuntzaz. UPV-EHUko Bilboko Irakasle Eskola: Bilbao, Jan 27-28, 2011. Presentació en coautoria amb V. Crespo-Sendra, P. Roseano, R. Sichel-Bazin, M. M. Vanrell i P. Prieto.
- Introducing PHON program. Invited talk at the 6th International Conference on Language Acquisition. Universitat de Barcelona, U. Pompeu Fabra: Barcelona, Sep 8-10, 2010.