Mgr. et Mgr. Michaela Svoboda

Institute of Psychology
The Czech Academy of Sciences
Pod Vodárenskou věží 1143/4
182 00 Prague 8
Phone: 266 053 851
E-mail: msvoboda@psu.cas.cz
Web: https://www.babylab.ff.cuni.cz/tym/

Language acquisition in children with atypical development, children with cochlear implants
Brain plasticity following early hearing deprivation
Bimodal bilingualism
Infant directed speech

2022 – present: Doctoral studies (PhD), Aplied linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Charles University
2023 – 2025: Master's Degree (Mgr.), Faculty of Education, Masaryk University: Speech and Language Therapy
2020 – 2023: Bachelor's Degree (Bc.), Faculty of Education, Masaryk University: Speech and Language Therapy
2020 – 2022: Master's Degree (Mgr.), Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague: Phonetics
2017 – 2020: Bachelor's Degree (Bc.), Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague: Phonetics (major) and General Linguistics

2024 – present: Brain and body rhythms in language interaction, funded by the Lumina Quaeruntur programme of the CAS (team member, PI Kateřina Chládková)
2024 – present: Beyond Security: Role of Conflict in Resilience-Building, reg. no.: CZ.02.01.01/00/22_008/0004595 (team member - VZ3: Conflict in Communication)
2023 – 2025: Speech production in bimodal bilinguals: lexical retrieval experiment (GA UK, project č. 178223, principal investigator)

Chládková, K., Jarůšková, L., & Svoboda, M. (2024). Děti a bilingvismus: Jak se učíme mluvit, když je kolem nás víc jazyků (1. vyd.). Středisko společných činností AV ČR, v. v. i., Nakladatelství Academia. https://www.vedakolemnas.cz/sys/galerie-download/VKN-135.pdf
Svoboda, M., Kučerová, M., Pospíšilová, E., & Chládková, K. (n.d.). Beyond the bilingual disadvantage: Language dominance predicts letter fluency in bimodal bilinguals [Under review].
Svoboda, M., Chládková, K., Kocjančič Antolík, T., Paillereau, N., & Slížková, P. (2023). Vowel length in infant-directed speech: The realisation of short-long contrasts in Czech IDS. In R. Skarnitzl & J. Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 2339–2343). International Phonetic Association.
Svoboda, M., & Šturm, P. (2022). Word-boundary glottalization and its cognitive aspects: A reaction-time study. AUC Philologica, 2022(1), 35–50.