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Position description:

The Prosodic and Gestural Studies Research Group (GREPG) in the Department of Translation and Language Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) invites applications for a fully funded PhD position within the ERC Advanced Grant PROSODY-SENSES: Prosody across senses: Testing a reconceptualization of prosody as a modality-neutral component of language governing spoken, visual and tactile signals, led by Prof. Pilar Prieto.

PhD6: Multisensory Prosody in European Portuguese Sign Language

The successful candidate will contribute to Strand 2 of the project, investigating the multisensory implementation of prosody in Portuguese Sign Language (Língua Gestual Portuguesa, LGP). The project will examine how prominence, grouping,



and other prosodic functions are realized across spoken and sign language modalities through speech, facial expressions, head and body movements, and manual and non-manual articulations. Drawing on controlled production experiments and multimodal corpora, the candidate will combine kinematic, and linguistic analyses with three-dimensional motion capture to investigate modality-neutral principles of prosodic organization. The candidate will contribute to the development of annotation protocols and quantitative analyses for modelling the magnitude and temporal coordination of prosodic cues across speech and sign, working closely with the ERC postdoctoral researcher responsible for multimodal motion-capture modelling.

The dissertation will follow an article-based format, comprising three to four publishable papers in international peer-reviewed journals. The PhD will be carried out under a cotutelle agreement between the University of Lisbon and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Th

📌 PhD Position 6: Multisensory Prosody in Portuguese Sign Language (Barcelona)
🏢 Pompeu Fabra University
📍 Barcelona