SPEAKIN Lab is a research group doing speech and language science. Our main interests are speech learning and adaptation, speech perception and production, and their dynamics across the lifespan, languages, language varieties, and accents. For more detail on what we do exactly, please see the projects page.
We’re scientists and students affiliated with the Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences, the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, and the Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové. Our experiments run mostly in LABELS, a.k.a. Laboratory of Behavioural and Linguistic Studies, as well as at schools, hospitals, and at collaborating institutions. We collaborate closely with the English department at Palacký University in Olomouc, as well as with universities and research institutes in the Netherlands, Germany, France, and Australia.
Since its establishment in 2018, the research of our laboratory has been continuously funded from various external and internal sources. We have been supported by grants from the Czech Science Foundation, the Grant Agency of Charles University, the European Regional Development Fund and the Czech Ministry of Education, and programs supporting excellent research from Charles University (Primus program) and the Academy of Sciences (Lumina Quaeruntur).
We’re looking for little monolingual and bilingual participants. Do you have a child aged 1-30 months? Sign up for our research! In addition to learning about language acquisition, there is a reward waiting for you.
What’s new
8. 11. 2024
What does it mean to be a bilingual speaker? Can bilingualism have any risks? Is there fake bilingualism? And what is bimodal bilingualism?
We have published a booklet Children and Bilingualism as part of the Science Around Us series. The booklet was co-authored by Kateřina Chládková, Lucie Jarůšková and Michaela Svoboda. You can read the brochure here or we will be happy to give it to you in our lab.
4. 11. 2024
The Week of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic is starting. We have prepared three workshops for you: How many languages do you know…, What is bilingualism and Experience the linguistic laboratory. Read more here.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Watch a recording of the event in our lab here.
8. 10. 2024
Kateřina Chládková is among the five talented scientists of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic who have been selected for the Hope of Czech Science column in the metropolitan magazine City Life MF Dnes.
You can read the full interview with Katka and the other scientists in the MF DNES archive.
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