• Essays in commodity price shocks in small open economies

  Romero, Damián (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2021-10-26)

  This thesis contributes to the understanding of the effect and transmission of commodity price shocks in commodityexporting economies. The first chapter studies the role of domestic production linkages between the commodity ...
• A temporal and pragmatic analysis of gestures-speech association: a corpus-based approach using the novel Multimodal MultiDimensional (M3D) labeling system

  Rohrer, Patrick Louis (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-01-27)

  Human language is essentially multimodal in that speakers use multiple channels to convey meaning, including speech prosody and gesture (e.g. Mondada, 2016; Perniss, 2018). In the last decades, studies within the field of ...
• Atenuació de la crítica en llengua de signes catalana (LSC): l'opinió restringida com a estratègia mitigadora

  Moya-Avilés, Berta (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-01-27)

  Aquesta tesi estudia la cortesia en llengua de signes catalana (LSC), concretament, l’atenuació de la crítica a través de l’estratègia discursiva de restringir l’opinió personal. Amb aquest propòsit, hem elaborat un corpus ...
• Embodied pronunciation training : the benefits of visuospatial hand gestures

  Peng, Li (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2021-10-21)

  In the last few decades, the use of hand gestures that encode phonological features of the target language has been proven to play a positive role in L2 suprasegmental learning. However, less is known about the effects of ...
• Brain states in health and disease: insights from neuroimaging and theoretical neuroscience

  Escrichs, Anira (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-01-27)

  Spontaneous brain activity persists and transitions between brain states, such as from wakefulness to sleep, from development to ageing, or it may transition to pathological states such as coma. Nevertheless, a consensual ...

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