word properties, mental lexicon
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences.
My main research interests revolve around how various word properties, such as imageability or concreteness, affect language processing, representation and acquisition, both in L1 and L2. During my research journey, I have looked into how word semantics determines acquisition of certain aspects of L1 grammar and I have collaborated on projects collecting sets of word norms along multiple dimensions, which can be further employed as valuable resources in future psycholinguistic research. I am also dealing with how individual word properties interact with each other and what actually constitutes the core of their well-documented effects on language performance.
Selected publications
Preininger, M., Brand, J., Kříž, A., & Ceháková, M. (2026). SocioLex-CZ: Normative estimates for socio-semantic dimensions of meaning for 2,999 words and 1,000 images. Behavior Research Methods, 58, 18.
Brand, J., Preininger, M., Kříž, A., & Ceháková, M. (2025). Feminine fox, not so feminine box: constraints on linguistic relativity effects for grammatical and conceptual gender. Language and Cognition, 17, e34.
Kříž, A., & Chromý, J. (2020). Eroze rodného jazyka jako předmět psycholingvistického výzkumu. Československá psychologie, 64(5), 578-589.
Smolík, F., & Kříž, A. (2015). The power of imageability: How the acquisition of inflected forms is facilitated in highly imageable verbs and nouns in Czech children. First Language, 35(6), 446-465.
