Petra Slížková
Petra is a master’s student of Phonetics at Charles University and she is interested in various methods of teaching pronunciation of foreign soudns.
What’s new
24. 5. 2023
We are pleased to invite you to the Science Fair 2023, which will take place from 8th to 10th June in Letňany, Prague. Visit the stands of FFUK or LABELS. Fun tasks on language will be prepared for you!
14. 5. 2023
In Czech Television’s Věda 24, we briefly talked about the role of mother tongue and accent in the way we choose friends. You can watch the report at this link (time 18:40).
5. 5. 2023
The paper Language-based social preferences of children: the influence of regional dialect on friendship choice has been accepted in the journal Československá psychologie. Congratulations to colleagues Natálie Kikoťová and Natalia Nudga and interns Jana Šimsová and Zita Maršíková!
2. 5. 2023
The event Science Café is just around the corner! You can listen to Kateřina Chládková’s and Anežka Kuzmičová’s talk on How babies become native speakers and readers on 9 May 2023 from 19:00 at the Hybernská Campus. You can watch the lecture here.
11. 4. 2023
We are pleased to invite you to the ICPhS 2023 Congress in Prague in August, which we are co-organizing this year. In the form of a poster, Michaela Svoboda will present a study on changes in IDS (infant-directed speech) during the first year of life. Kateřina Chládková will talk about the distributive learning from foreign vs. native accents/rhythms in children.
In May, our students Natálie Kikoťová and Lucie Jarůšková are going to attend YLMP2023 in Poznan, a conference of young linguists, where they will present two experiments on language-based social preferences in preschool children, applied to the Czech environment.
22. 3. 2023
Join us at the linguistic conference Olinco 2023. Natalia Nudga will present a study on the perception of word stress The perceptual reality of Czech word stress in native and non-native listeners. We also invite you to a talk by Filip Maroš from the PSÚ AVČR on neural processing of sentences in Czech, co-authored by Filip Smolík and Kateřina Chládková. And the Dovyko project will be presented – a diagnostic tool for measuring language development in young children, led by Nikola Paillereau, on which cooperated Kateřina Chládková, Lucie Jarůšková, Kateřina Kynčlová, Zuzana Oceláková and Veronika Ungrová together with colleagues from PSÚ AVČR.
One of the keynote lectures will be Language Learning Beginnings by Kateřina Chládková, who will reveal the differences and similarities between the beginnings of native and foreign language learning. The lecture will be followed by a workshop by Šarka Šimáček and Jonáš Podlipský, where you can learn about phonetics, syllables and prosody of native and foreign languages.
We look forward to seeing you in Olomouc on 8-10th of June!
13. 3. 2023
The Brain Awareness Week 2023, a scientific festival of the latest discoveries and trends in brain research and neuroscience, is taking place this week. Come to the AVČR building on Národní Street in Prague on Thursday at 11:00 a.m. to listen to a lecture by Kateřina Chládková on the Rhythm of the Brain, Body and Speech about how speech is connected to cognition and the body’s biorhythm.
20. 2. 2023
Two of our abstracts have been accepted for the international conference PaPE 2023. One paper is on the Influence of orthography on i-y contrast production in Opava and Prague (Šimáčková et al.) and the other on the Influence of prosody on statistical learning and word segmentation in Czech infants (Chládková et al.). The projects are joint with Václav Jonáš Podlipský, Nikola Paillereau and Natalia Nudga. Join us in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, June 2–4, 2023!
3. 2. 2023
Join us at the Cognitive School 2023, which we are co-organizing again this year. In a short talk, Martina will present a study on neuromethods in linguistics (joint with colleagues from Germany and Katka Ch.), and Natálie K. with Lucka J. and Katka Ch. will be talking about how language affects social cognition. The date of the event is February 17–19, 2023.