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  1. Training ESL students to reproduce beat gestures in discourse leads to L2 pronunciation improvements

    Article • Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", January 2025, UBC Press

    Joan Borràs-Comes

  2. Bridging Inferences and Reference Management: Evidence from an Experimental Investigation in Catalan and Russian

    Article • Language and Speech, June 2023, SAGE Publications

    Joan Borràs-Comes

  3. Greek non-negative min, epistemic modality, and positive bias

    Article • Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, December 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Joan Borràs-Comes, Evripidis Tsiakmakis

  4. Multimodal mitigation: how facial and body cues index politeness in Catalan requests

    Article • Journal of Politeness Research, December 2022, De Gruyter

    Joan Borràs-Comes

  5. On the interpretation of response particles méi(yǒu) and bù to negative polar questions in Mandarin Chinese

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, October 2022, Elsevier

    Joan Borràs-Comes

  6. Greek polydefinites revisited

    Article • Journal of Greek Linguistics, June 2021, Brill

    Professor M.Teresa Espinal, Joan Borràs-Comes, Evripidis Tsiakmakis

  7. Mismatches in the interpretation of fragment negative expressions in Mandarin Chinese

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, October 2019, Elsevier

    Joan Borràs-Comes

  8. Epistemic intonation and epistemic gesture are mutually co-expressive: Empirical results from two intonation-gesture matching tasks

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, September 2019, Elsevier

    Joan Borràs-Comes

  9. Beat gestures help preschoolers recall and comprehend discourse information

    Article • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, August 2018, Elsevier

    Joan Borràs-Comes

  10. Single negation interpretations in sentences with multiple negative expressions in Mandarin Chinese. An experimental investigation

    Article • Lingua, July 2018, Elsevier

    Joan Borràs-Comes

  11. How speakers interpret the negative markers no and no…pas in Catalan

    Article • Probus, April 2018, De Gruyter

    Professor M.Teresa Espinal, Joan Borràs-Comes

  12. Relating (Un)acceptability to Interpretation. Experimental Investigations on Negation

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, February 2018, Frontiers

    Joan Borràs-Comes

  13. Prosodic mitigation characterizes Catalan formal speech: The Frequency Code reassessed

    Article • Journal of Phonetics, November 2017, Elsevier

    Joan Borràs-Comes

  14. Question intonation contours as dynamic epistemic operators

    Article • Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, October 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Joan Borràs-Comes

  15. The timing of head movements: The role of prosodic heads and edges

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, June 2017, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Joan Borràs-Comes

  16. Double Negation in Catalan and Spanish. Interaction Between Syntax and Prosody

    Article • July 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Joan Borràs-Comes

  17. Communicating Epistemic Stance: How Speech and Gesture Patterns Reflect Epistemicity and Evidentiality

    Article • Discourse Processes, April 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Joan Borràs-Comes

  18. Exploring the contribution of prosody and gesture to the perception of focus using an animated agent☆

    Article • Journal of Phonetics, March 2015, Elsevier

    Joan Borràs-Comes

  19. Vocative Intonation Preferences are Sensitive to Politeness Factors

    Article • Language and Speech, March 2015, SAGE Publications

    Joan Borràs-Comes

  20. The acquisition of melodic form and meaning in yes-no interrogatives by Catalan and Spanish speaking children

    Article • Probus, January 2015, De Gruyter

    Joan Borràs-Comes

  21. Epistemic and evidential marking in discourse: Effects of register and debatability

    Article • Lingua, December 2014, Elsevier

    Pilar Prieto, Joan Borràs-Comes

  22. The role of pitch range in establishing intonational contrasts

    Article • Journal of the International Phonetic Association, March 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Joan Borràs-Comes

  23. The acquisition of coda consonants by Catalan and Spanish children: Effects of prominence and frequency of exposure

    Article • Probus, January 2014, De Gruyter

    Joan Borràs-Comes

  24. Audiovisual Correlates of Interrogativity: A Comparative Analysis of Catalan and Dutch

    Article • Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, October 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Joan Borràs-Comes

  25. Prosody and gesture constrain the interpretation of double negation

    Article • Lingua, July 2013, Elsevier

    Pilar Prieto, Joan Borràs-Comes

  26. Specific Neural Traces for Intonational Discourse Categories as Revealed by Human-evoked Potentials

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, April 2012, The MIT Press

    Joan Borràs-Comes, Dr. Carles Escera

  27. Crossmodal prosodic and gestural contribution to the perception of contrastive focus

    Article • August 2011, International Speech Communication Association

    Joan Borràs-Comes