developmental language disorders, child language corpora
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, and 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.
