ABOUT SPEAKIN LAB
SPEAKin Lab is a research group focused on speech and language. Our team concentrates on three main areas of psycholinguistics: first language acquisition across the lifespan, learning additional and foreign languages, and language dynamics across dialects, social interactions, and emotions. Members of SPEAKIN Lab are affiliated with the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Medicine at Charles University, the Institute of Psychology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at Havlíčkův Brod Hospital.
The Babylab child lab was founded by Dr. Kateřina Chládková in 2018, alongside the SPEAKIN Lab research group. The research conducted at Babylab is continuously funded from various internal and external sources. We have been supported by grants from the Czech Science Foundation, Charles University Grant Agency, the European Regional Development Fund, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, and by programs supporting excellent research from both Charles University (Primus program) and the Czech Academy of Sciences (Lumina Quaeruntur award).
ABOUT BABYLAB VORŠILSKÁ
Babylab Voršilská is a research laboratory where we study the cognitive and language development of infants and children from birth to school age. In our research, we use behavioral methods, and some of our studies also use non-invasive, stress-free neuroimaging methods, such as EEG and NIRS. Babylab is a joint workplace of the Faculty of Arts at Charles University and the Institute of Psychology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. In the past, you may have visited us at Hybernská, but we are now located at Voršilská 1.
Would you like to participate in our speech and language development research with your child? You can sign up using the button below and by filling out the registration form. Or feel free to email us at babylab@ff.cuni.cz.
WHAT’S OUR GOAL?
For several years now, we have been mapping the typical language development of children growing up in Czech-speaking environments, whether monolingual or bilingual. These insights are crucial for understanding how children acquire language, for diagnosing atypical development, and for learning additional languages at a later age. We aim to map not only typical development but also atypical patterns. Currently, we are also studying language acquisition in children with hearing and neurodevelopmental disorders. These findings are vital for early diagnosis and effective intervention. Last but not least, we also focus on foreign language learning in older children and adults, and we aim to provide them with learning methods that facilitate effortless language acquisition.
Interested in learning more about our research? Have a look at some of our projects below or in the Our Projects section.
OUR CURRENT PROJECTS
THANK YOU FOR TAKING PART IN OUR RESEARCH!
