Assistant Professor - Serra Húnter Fellow / Professor Lector Serra Húnter
Education / Formació:
PhD in Language Sciences (international cotutelle) Department of Translation and Language Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona & Laboratoire Linguistique de Nantes, Nantes Université, Nantes, France
Research Master's in English Studies, Specializing in Linguistics & Didactics
Département du Monde Anglophone, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III,
Paris, France
B.A. in French Studies, Specializing in French Literature
Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Georgia State University,
Atlanta, GA, USA
Teaching / Docència:
Advanced Writing Workshop; Treball de Fi de Grau (TFG); Treball de Fi de Màster (TFM)
Select courses taught at other institutions:
English Language 1, English Competence & Use 2, French Language 5 & 6, Strategies for Foreign Language Learning (French), Phonetics & Phonology, Multimodal Corpus Development
Research Topics / Recerca:
- Gestures
- Prosody
- Gesture-Speech synchrony
- Speech Perception
- Audiovisual Integration
- Cognition
- Language Acquisition (L1/L2)
- Pragmatics
Selected Publications / Publicacions Destacades:
Yao, T., Gutierrez, S., Rohrer, P. L., & Prieto, P. (Under review). The Effect of Embodied and Non-Embodied Shadowing Training on Learning L2 English Pronunciation: Shadowing Latency Matters. Submitted to Language Teaching Research.
Rohrer, P. L., Tütüncübasi, U., Florit-Pons, J., Vilà-Giménez, I., Esteve-Gibert, N., Ren-Mitchell, A., Shattuck-Hufnagel, S., & Prieto, P. (2025). Multidimensional labeling of gesture in communication: The M3D proposal. Corpus Pragmatics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41701-025-00197-2
Rohrer, P. L., Bujok, R., van Maastrict, L. & Bosker, H. R. (2025). From "I dance" to "she danced" with the flick of the hands: Audiovisual stress perception in Spanish. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. http://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02683-9
Rohrer, P. L., Hong, Y. & Bosker, H. R. (2024). Gestures time to vowel onset and change the acoustics of the word in Mandarin. In: Y. Chen, A. Chen, & A. Arvaniti (Eds.) Speech Prosody 2024 (pp. 866-870). ISCA Archive. https://doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2024-175
Baills, F., Baumann, S. & Rohrer, P. (2023). The relation between pitch accent types, head movements and perceived prosodic prominence in L2 French. In: R. Skarnitzl & J. Volín (Eds.) Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 4145-4149). Guarant International. https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/icphs-proceedings/ICPhS2023/full_papers/454.pdf
Florit-Pons, J., Vilà-Giménez, I., Rohrer, P. L., & Prieto, P. (2023). Multimodal development in children's narrative speech: Evidence for tight gesture-speech temporal alignment patterns as early as 5 years old. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 66(3), 888-900. http://doi.org/10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00451
Rohrer, P. L., Delais-Roussarie, E., & Prieto, P. (2023). Visualizing prosodic structure: Manual gestures as highlighters of prosodic heads and edges in English academic discourses. LINGUA, 293. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2023.103583
Baills, F., Rohrer, P. L., & Prieto, P. (2022). Le geste et la voix pour enseigner la prononciation en langue étrangère. Mélanges CRAPEL, 43(1). https://www.atilf.fr/publications/revues-atilf/melanges-crapel/
Rohrer, P. L., Florit-Pons, J., Vilà-Giménez, I., & Prieto, P. (2022). Children Use Non-referential Gestures in Narrative Speech to Mark Discourse Elements Which Update Common Ground. Frontiers in Psychology, 12:661339. http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.661339
Rohrer, P. L., Delais-Roussarie, E., & Prieto, P. (2020). Beat gestures for comprehension and recall: Differential effects of language learners and native listeners. Frontiers in Psychology, 11:575929. http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.575929
Llanes-Coromina, J., Prieto, P., Rohrer, P. (2018) Brief training with rhythmic beat gestures helps L2 pronunciation in a reading aloud task. In K. Klessa, J. Bachan, A. Wagner, M. Karpiński & D. Śledziński (Eds.), Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2018 (pp. 498-502). ISCA Archive. http://doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2018-101
Contact information
Office: 2.15
Avinguda Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona