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/
Research Interests
- Language acquisition in children with atypical development, children with cochlear implants
- Brain plasticity following early hearing deprivation
- Bimodal bilingualism
- Infant directed speech
Education
- 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
Research Stays
- 9 - 10/2025: Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language
Projects
- 2026 - present: Bimodal Bilingualism: Neural Correlates of Sign Language Learning (GA UK n. 4126, principal investigator)
- 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)
Publications
- Svoboda, M., Kikoťová, N., Kučerová, M., Dršata, J., Krtičková, J., Chrobok, V., & Chládková, K. (2026). Limited cross-modal activation to visual language in the auditory cortices of hearing-impaired children. NeuroImage, 329, 121835. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2026.121835
- Svoboda, M., Chládková K. Assessing Language Development in Children with Cochlear Implants: Challenges and Perspectives in Czech Practice. Listy klinické logopedie. 2025; 9(2), 74-82. doi: 10.36833/lkl.2025.015
- 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. (2025). Beyond the bilingual disadvantage: Language dominance and word-retrieval strategies in bimodal bilinguals’ letter fluency. International Journal of Bilingualism, 0(0).
- 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.
