Publications – SPEAKin lab

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Preprints

Chládková, K., Svoboda, M., & Filip, M. (PsyArXiv preprint, 2026, July 3). Who wrote the story? AI authorship beliefs alter the brain’s semantic prediction.
Kikoťová, N., & Chládková, K. (PsyArXiv preprint, 2026, May 26). When words hit harder: trade-offs between EEG power and phase coherence in the processing of neutral and angry speech.
Dvořáková, M., Urbanec, J., Kremláček, J., & Chládková, K. (PsyArXiv preprint). Newborns’ neural tuning to the native language is revealed by infant-directed speech.
Govaart, G. H., Chládková, K., Schettino, A., & Männel, C. (PsyArXiv preprint, 2026, May 12). Does the Speaker Matter: EEG Evidence on the Influence of Voice Information on Phoneme Learning in Infancy.
Govaart, G. H., Chládková, K., Schettino, A., & Männel, C. (PsyArXiv preprint, 2026, May 12). Voice-Familiarity Benefit in Infant Phoneme Perception: Acoustic versus Exemplar-based Familiarity.
Govaart, G., Dvořáková, M., Chládková, K. & Männel, C. (PsyArXiv preprint). Infant Brain Responses in Auditory Perception: A Review of the Factors Influencing the Polarity of the Mismatch Response. OSF preprint.

2026

Visser, I., Geambașu, A., Kachergis, G., Oliveira, C. M., Rocha-Hidalgo, J., Zettersten, M., … Chládková, K., Kučerová, K., Cook, K.,… Levelt, C. (in press). ManyBabies 3: A Multi-Lab Study of Infant Algebraic Rule Learning. Developmental Science.
Dvořáková, M., Kikoťová, N., Urbanec, J., Götz, A., & Chládková, K. (in press). Newborns detect foreign rhythm in native-language speech. Developmental Science.
Pešková, A., & Chládková, K. (2026). A cross-language comparison of length perception in Italian-learning adults. Language and Speech. [Special issue edited by Angela Grimm & Barış Kabak, Multifaceted and multifactorial approaches to developing phonological systems.]
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, 121835.

2024–2025

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, online first.
Jarůšková, L. & Chládková, K. (2023). Preference for native-accented peers in monolingual and bilingual children acquiring Czech. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 46, 1845-1856.
Svoboda, M., Chládková, K. (2025). Hodnocení jazykového vývoje u dětí s kochleárním implantátem: výzvy a možnosti české praxe. [Assessing Language Development in Children with Cochlear Implants: Challenges and Opportunities in Czech Practice.] Listy Klinické Logopedie, 9(2), 74–82.
Chládková, K., Podlipský, V. J., Jarůšková, L., & Šimáčková, Š. (2025). Tuning in to the prosody of a novel language is easier without orthography. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 28(5), 1239–1248.
Dvořáková, M., & Chládková, K. (2025). Mismatch Response to Native and Nonnative Vowels in Czech and Russian: Where’s the Phoneme Effect?. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 68(5), 2175-2190.
Paillereau, N., & Chládková, K. (2024). Infants’ reliance on rhythm to distinguish languages: A critical review. Infancy, 29(6), 842-876.
Urbanec, J., Chládková, K., & Kremláček, J. (2024). Neural processing of speech sounds at premature and term birth: ERPs and MMR between 32 and 42 weeks of gestation. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 70, 101444.
Kikoťová, N., & Chládková, K. (2024). Neural oscillatory and ERP indices of prediction in emotional speech. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46.
Kynčlová, K., & Chádková, K. (2024). Neural Indices of Online Statistical Learning in Visual Speech. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46.
Roubalová, T., Jarůšková, L., Chládková, K. & Lindová, J. (2024) Comparing the productive vocabularies of grey parrots (Psittacus erithacus) and young children. Animal Cognition, 27 (45). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-024-01883-5.
Jarůšková, L., Sloupová, T., Smolík, F., Chládková, K., Oceláková, Z., & Paillereau, N. (2024). Developing Dovyko I: The Czech Adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory. Československá Psychologie, 68(2), 174-185. https://doi.org/10.51561/cspsych.68.2.174.

2022–2023

Kikoťová, N., Nudga, N., Šimsová, J., Maršíková, Z. & Chládková, K. (2023). Jazykově podmíněné sociální preference dětí: vliv regionálního dialektu na výběr kamaráda [Language-based social preferences: The effect of dialect on friendship choices]. Československá Psychologie, 67(3-4), 166-178. https://doi.org/10.51561/cspsych.67.3-4.166.
Svoboda, M., Chládková, K., Antolík, T., Paillereau, N. & Slížková, P. (2023). Vowel length in infant-directed speech: the realisation of short-long contrasts in Czech IDS. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS) 2023.
Chládková, K., Podlipský, V., Nudga, N., Paillereau, N., Kynčlová, K. & Šimáčková, Š. (2023). Infants‘ learning of novel segments in modulated by prosody.Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), 2023.
Jarůšková, L., Smolík, F., Chládková, K., Oceláková, Z., & Paillereau, N. (2023). How to build a communicative development inventory: Insights from 43 adaptations.Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 66 (6), 2095-2117. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_JSLHR-22-00591
Urbanec, J., Kremláček, J., Chládková, K., & Skálová, S., (2022). The Development and Neurophysiological Assessment of Newborn Auditory Cognition: A Review of Findings and Their Application, ACTA MEDICA, 65(1), 1-7. DOI: 10.14712/18059694.2022.9
Boersma, P., Chládková, K., & Benders, T. (2022). Phonological features emerge substance-freely from the phonetics and the morphology. Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue Canadienne De Linguistique, 1-59. DOI: 10.1017/cnj.2022.39
Chládková, K., Boersma, P., & Escudero, P. (2022). Unattended distributional training can shift phoneme boundaries. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, DOI: 10.1017/S1366728922000086

2020–2021

Chládková, K., Urbanec, J., Skálová, S., & Kremláček, J. (2021). Newborns‘ neural processing of native vowels reveals directional asymmetries. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 52:101023. DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2021.101023
Paillereau, N., Podlipský, V.J., Smolík, F., Šimáčková, Š., & Chládková, K. (2021). The development of infants’ sensitivity to native versus non-native rhythm. Infancy, 26. DOI: 10.1111/infa.12395
Paillereau, N., Podlipský, V.J., Šimáčková, Š., Smolík, F., Oceláková, Z., & Chládková, K. (2021). Perceptual sensitivity to vowel quality and vowel length in the first year of life. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 1 (2), 025202.
Chládková, K., Podlipský, V.J., Nudga, N., & Šimáčková, Š. (2021). The McGurk effect in the time of pandemic: Age-dependent adaptation to a partial loss of visual speech cues. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 28. DOI: 10.3758/s13423-020-01852-2
Chládková, K., & Šimáčková, Š. (2021). Distributional learning of speech sounds: Exploring the effects of prior language experience. Language Learning, 71 (1), 131–161.
Chládková, K., Nuďga, N. & Boersma, P. (2020). A model of prenatal acquisition of vowels. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society Annual Meeting, 29 July–1 August, 2020.
Podlipský, V.J., Šimáčková, Š., & Chládková, K. (2020). Phonetic drift reveals interconnected phonological representations in simultaneous bilinguals: a case study of English and Czech stop consonants. International Journal of Bilingualism.
Chládková, K. & Paillereau, N. (2020). The what and when of universal perception: a review of early speech sound acquisition. Language Learning.

2019 and older

Paillereau, N. & Chládková, K. (2019). Spectral and temporal characteristics of Czech vowels in spontaneous speech. Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Philologica 2/2019, Phonetica Pragensia.
Podlipský, V.J., Chládková, K., & Šimáčková, Š. (2019). Spectrum as a perceptual cue to vowel length in Czech, a quantity language. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 146, EL352.
Chládková, K., Černá, M., Paillereau, N., Skarnitzl, R. & Oceláková, Z. (2019). Prenatal infant-directed speech: vowels and voice quality. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), 2020, 1525–1529.
Chládková, K., Podlipský, V.J., & Chionidou, A. (2017). Perceptual adaptation of vowels generalizes across the phonology and doesn’t require local context. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43, 414–427. (NB: Tento článek vznikl ještě před založením naší laboratoře – částečně jako hobby projekt, a předurčil její směřování.)

Booklets, brochures, manuals

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.
Paillereau, N., Smolík, F., Sloupová, T., Chládková, K., Jarůšková, L., Fialová, T., Dvořáková, B., Oceláková, Z., Ungrová, V., Kynčlová, K., Pešek, J., & Kadavá, Š. (2024). Dovyko I a Dovyko II: Dotazníky pro screening jazykového vývoje u dětí od 8 do 30 měsíců. Příručka, normy a dotazníky. Dostupné zde.
Šimík, R., Nádvorníková, O., Chládková, K., Chromý, J., Saicová Římalová, L. & Ševčíková, M. (2024). V předvečer Bienále české lingvistiky 2024. Slovo a Slovesnost, 58 (1). 10.58756/s3818512.
Smolík, F. (spolupráce Chládková, K. a Paillereau, N., 2023). Jak se děti učí mluvit. Edice Věda kolem nás.
Smolík, F. (2021). Psychologický ústav. Edice Věda kolem nás.
Chládková, K. (2019). Jazyk nemluvňat – výzkum osvojování hlásek mateřského jazyka. Studies in Applied Linguistics, 10 (1), 112–117.

In preparation or under review without a preprint:

Svoboda, M., Kikoťová, N., Kučerová, M., Dršata, J., Krtičková, J., Chrobok, V., Chládková, K. (manuscript under review). Cross-modal integration in the processing of silent speech and sign language in hearing-impaired preschoolers.
Chládková, K., Podlipský, V.J., Paillereau, N., Nudga, N., Kynčlová, K., Kopecký, D., Šimáčková, Š. Prosody overrides statistics in word segmentation by infants. Analyses and writing in progress.