I am a PhD student and a junior researcher at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, and a junior researcher at the Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences.
My main focus is the language development of preschool and early school-age children with language difficulties (developmental language disorder), particularly their acquisition of grammar in comparison to typically developing children. In my PhD thesis, I examine the relation between sentence imitation ability, working memory, and language skills in these children.
I also co-lead the development of the child language corpora CoCzeFLA, where I am primarily responsible for coordinating their morphological annotation.
Selected publications:
Matiasovitsová, K., Čechová, P., Sláma, J., Homolková, K., & Smolík, F. (2024). Mean Length of Utterance in Czech Toddlers: Validity Estimates and Comparison of Words, Morphemes, and Syllables. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 67(3), 837-852.
Šimík, R., Matiasovitsová, K., & Smolík, F. (2024). Wh-word acquisition in Czech: Exploring the growing trees hypothesis. Language Acquisition, 1–29.
Smolík, F., & Matiasovitsová, K. (2021). Sentence imitation with masked morphemes in Czech: Memory, morpheme frequency, and morphological richness. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 64(1), 105-120.