Dr. Kateřina Chládková, M.A.

Institute of Psychology
The Czech Academy of Sciences
Pod Vodárenskou věží 1143/4
182 00 Prague 8
Phone: +420 266 053 851
E-mail: chladkova@praha.psu.cas.cz

Research Interests

I work on the cognitive processing of speech and language with focus on speech sound learning and category formation in adults and infants. I am interested in all areas of laboratory phonology and phonetics in general. My current projects aim to describe the development al trajectory of various types of vowel contrasts in Czech-learning infants, assessing the effects of pre-natal exposure in newborns and the effects of talker accent on speech sound learning in older infants. I use behavioural (e.g. looking paradigms), neurophysiological (ERPs) and computational methods (neural networks).

Our research features in a video on baby language, morning TV show and news report on native and second language speech learning.

Full CV here.

Education

2014 Universiteit van Amsterdam, Faculty of Humanities, PhD
2009 Universiteit van Amsterdam, Faculty of Humanities, MA in General linguistics
2008 Palacky University in Olomouc, Faculty of Arts, BA in English and Dutch philology

Employment

since 2018: researcher – Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences
since 2018: assistant professor – Faculty of Arts, Charles University
2016 – 2018: post-doc – Institute of Psychology, Universität Leipzig (Germany)
2018 – 2021: guest researcher – MEG group, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
2014 – 2021: guest researcher – Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication, Universiteit van Amsterdam
2013 – 2014: post-doc – Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication, Universiteit van Amsterdam
2009 – 2013: PhD candidate – Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication, Universiteit van Amsterdam

Funding

2021 – 2023: Learning to recognize words: a developmental cross-dialectal perspective (PI, CSF)
2021 – 2023: Diagnostic tool for assessment of communicative development in Czech children from 8 to 30 months (co-investigator, TACR)
2018 – 2020: Acquiring a quantity language: infants' input and perceptual processing of vowel length (PI, from Charles University)
2018 – 2020: The effect of talker accent on speech sound acquisition (PI, from Czech Science Foundation GACR)
2016 – 2018: Piecing auditory cues together: how we learn to integrate cues in speech perception (post-doctoral individual fellowship Rubicon, from The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, NWO)
2014: Endeavour Research Fellowship from the Australian government, for a 6-month research period - not realized due to family commitments

Selected Publications

DVOŘÁKOVÁ, M., CHLÁDKOVÁ, K. Mismatch Response to Native and Nonnative Vowels in Czech and Russian: Where's the Phoneme Effect? Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research. 2025, 68(5), 2175-2190. ISSN 1092-4388. E-ISSN 1558-9102. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_JSLHR-23-00788.
CHLÁDKOVÁ, K., PODLIPSKÝ, V.J., JARŮŠKOVÁ, L., ŠIMÁČKOVÁ, Š. Tuning in to the prosody of a novel language is easier without orthography. Bilingualism-Language and Cognition. 2025, únor. ISSN 1366-7289. E-ISSN 1469-1841. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728925000082.
JARŮŠKOVÁ, L., SLOUPOVÁ, T., SMOLÍK, F., CHLÁDKOVÁ, K., OCELÁKOVÁ, Z., PAILLEREAU, N. Developing Dovyko I: The Czech Adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory. Československá psychologie. 2024, 68(2), 174-185. ISSN 0009-062X. E-ISSN 1804-6436. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.51561/cspsych.68.2.174.
PAILLEREAU, N., CHLÁDKOVÁ, K. Infants' reliance on rhythm to distinguish languages: A critical review. Infancy. 2024, 29(6), 842-876. ISSN 1525-0008. E-ISSN 1532-7078. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12613.
ROUBALOVÁ, T., JARŮŠKOVÁ, L., CHLÁDKOVÁ, K., LINDOVÁ, J. Comparing the productive vocabularies of grey parrots (Psittacus erithacus) and young children. Animal Cognition. 2024, 27(1), 45. ISSN 1435-9448. E-ISSN 1435-9456. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-024-01883-5.
URBANEC, J., CHLÁDKOVÁ, K., KREMLÁČEK, J. Neural processing of speech sounds at premature and term birth: ERPs and MMR between 32 and 42 weeks of gestation. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 2024, 70(prosinec), 101444. ISSN 1878-9293. E-ISSN 1878-9307. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2024.101444.
JARŮŠKOVÁ, L., SMOLÍK, F., CHLÁDKOVÁ, K., OCELÁKOVÁ, Z., PAILLEREAU, N. How to Build a Communicative Development Inventory: Insights From 43 Adaptations. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research. 2023, 66(6), 2095-2117. ISSN 1092-4388. E-ISSN 1558-9102. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_JSLHR-22-00591.
JARŮŠKOVÁ, L., CHLÁDKOVÁ, K. Preference for native-accented peers in monolingual and bilingual children acquiring Czech. Journal of multilingual and multicultural development. 2023, říjen. ISSN 0143-4632. E-ISSN 1747-7557. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2023.2257189.
KIKOŤOVÁ, N., NUDGA, N., ŠIMSOVÁ, J., MARŠÍKOVÁ, Z., CHLÁDKOVÁ, K. Jazykově podmíněné sociální preference dětí: vliv regionálního dialektu na výběr kamaráda. Československá psychologie. 2023, 67(3/4), 166-178. ISSN 0009-062X. E-ISSN 1804-6436. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.51561/cspsych.67.3-4.166.
BOERSMA, P., CHLÁDKOVÁ, K., BENDERS, T. Phonological features emerge substance-freely from the phonetics and the morphology. Canadian Journal of Linguistics. 2022, 67(4), 611-669. ISSN 0008-4131. E-ISSN 1710-1115. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1017/cnj.2022.39.

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