Tutoria Doctorat en Salut i Psicologia

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Since September 2024, I specifically worked on the design of the stimuli for the first experiment of my thesis. The experiment aims at exploring the role of prominence in the acquisition and the generalization of verb-inflectional morphemes (particularly, singular and plural) among typically-developing adults. To do so, I have prepared the stimuli of my first experiment of the thesis. It consists of video recordings in which a Catalan-speaking person produces non-sense words (verbs) with different prominence markers on the inflectional morpheme: no prominence, prosodic prominence and multimodal prominence. Each of the videos representing verbs is simultaneously matched with a picture of an image (AI-generated picture) representing an action that is either in a singular form (e.g. a person biking – duntol) or in a plural form (i.e., more than one person biking – duntop). This process has contributed to a better understanding of  the methodologies used within language acquisition and to develop critical thinking skills in order to scientifically assess the efficiency of my design.