Núria
Esteve Gibert

Núria Esteve Gibert has been an associate professor at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya's (UOC) Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences since September 2018. She earned her PhD in 2014 at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona) and was subsequently a postdoctoral researcher at Aix-Marseille University's Brain and Language Research Institute and at the University of Barcelona's Language Acquisition Research Group (GRAL). She is now a researcher in the Cognition and Language Research Group (GRECIL) and director of the UOC's Master's Degree in Learning Difficulties and Language Disorders.  She studies language acquisition, particularly first language (L1) acquisition, but is also interested in the acquisition of second languages (L2). She researches how infants use language's oral and visual modalities, and how they integrate the prosodic aspects of speech and body movements into temporal and pragmatic fields. In recent years, she has become particularly interested in how children with speech and language disorders can make use of these multimodal strategies to overcome their issues with grammar and communication. She makes use of experimental techniques such as eye tracking and (semi-)controlled tasks to obtain evidence to help make contributions to language acquisition, processing and production models.  Her personal website provides a complete list of her publications and projects.