Mariia Pronina

Biographic Data

ID5016414
NAMEMariia Pronina
GIVEN NAMESMariia
FAMILY NAMEPronina
SIGNATUREPRONINA M
AFFILIATIONSUniversitat Pompeu Fabra
ORCID0000-0001-8795-2984
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Multimodal imitation reveals differences in typically developing children and children with neurodevelopmental disorders

    Open AccessJúlia Florit-Pons, Mariia Pronina et al.ARTICLECognitive Development2026

    Imitation has been extensively studied in development, with most research examining either verbal/sentence imitation or gesture imitation in isolation. Despite the inherently multimodal nature of communication, very few studies have investigated how children imitate multiple communicative components simultaneously (such as gesture, sentence, and prosody). Moreover, little is known about how these multimodal imitation abilities develop across diff…

  • Multimodal Skills, but Not Motor Skills, Predict Narrative and Expressive Pragmatic Skills in Children With Typical Development and Neurodevelopmental Disorders

    Open AccessJúlia Florit-Pons, Mariia Pronina et al.ARTICLEChild Development2025References: 72

    To see whether communicative-based multimodal skills (compared to non-communicative motor skills) predicted complex language skills, this study examined the predictive power of multimodal and motor skills on narrative and expressive pragmatic abilities across two groups. Participants were children with typical development (N = 88, Mage = 5.34, 48% female) and with neurodevelopmental disorders (N = 51, Mage = 5.01, 25% female) mostly of white ethn…

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingual Phonetics and Phonology

    Open AccessEllen Broselow, Esther L Brown et al.BOOKCambridge Handbook of Bilingual…2024

    Bilingualism and the study of speech sounds are two of the largest areas of inquiry in linguistics. This Handbook sits at the intersection of these fields, providing a comprehensive overview of the most recent, cutting-edge work on the sound systems of adult and child bilinguals. Bringing together contributions from an international team of world-leading experts, it covers all aspects of the speech perception, production and processing of bilingu…

  • Expressive Pragmatics and Prosody in Young Preschoolers are More Closely Related to Structural Language than to Mentalizing

    Mariia Pronina, Pilar Prieto et al.ARTICLELanguage Learning and Development2023

    Pragmatics lies at the point where language meets the social world and encompasses both the linguistic and the social dimensions of communication. However, the relationship between pragmatic abilities, other language skills, and socio-cognitive aspects such as mentalizing is still a matter of wide debate. This study sets out to investigate the status of pragmatic abilities by testing from a developmental angle their relationship with other lingui…

  • Narrative Performance and Sociopragmatic Abilities in Preschool Children are Linked to Multimodal Imitation Skills

    Open AccessEva Castillo, Mariia Pronina et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2023

    Over recent decades much research has analyzed the relevance of 9- to 20- month-old infants’ early imitation skills (object- and language-based imitation) for language development. Yet there have been few systematic comparisons of the joint relevance of these imitative behaviors later on in development. This correlational study investigated whether multimodal imitation (gestural, prosodic, and lexical components) and object-based imitation are re…