Kateřina Chládková
Biographic Data
| ID | 146301 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kateřina Chládková |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kateřina |
| FAMILY NAME | Chládková |
| SIGNATURE | CHLÁDKOVÁ K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Czech Academy of Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2009-1897 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Cross-Language Comparison of Length Perception in Italian-Learning Adults
This study investigates how adult learners perceive segmental length in L2 Italian. We tested 104 learners from 5 L1 backgrounds that differ in their phonological treatment of quantity: Finnish (vowel and consonant length), Czech and Slovak (vowel length), German (restricted vowel length), and Spanish (no phonemic length). These groups were compared with 34 native speakers of Italian, a language with distinctive consonant length (e.g., papa ‘Pope…
Beyond the bilingual disadvantage
Aims and objectives: Although bilingualism and its effects on cognition and language processing are widely studied, when it comes to bilingualism across modalities, the current understanding is limited. Here, we report a letter fluency task that compared word-retrieval outcomes and strategies in early bimodal bilinguals (Czech and Czech sign language) and monolinguals (Czech). Methodology: Bimodal bilinguals ( n = 15) and monolinguals ( n = 15) m…
Tuning in to the prosody of a novel language is easier without orthography
Mastering prosody is a different task for adults learning a second language and infants acquiring their first. While prosody crucially aids the process of L1 acquisition, for adult L2 learners it is often considerably challenging. Is it because of an age-related decline in the language-learning ability or because of unfavorable learning conditions? We investigated whether adults can auditorily sensitize to the prosody of a novel language, and whe…
Preference for native-accented peers in monolingual and bilingual children acquiring Czech
This study investigates the effect of foreign accent in a friendship choice in preschool children and how the native-accent bias can be modulated by bilingual upbringing
Infants' reliance on rhythm to distinguish languages
This article reviews empirical methods and findings on early language discrimination, questioning rhythm‐class based hypotheses on language discrimination in infancy, as well as the assumption that early language discrimination is driven primarily (or solely) by temporal prosodic cues. The present work argues that within‐rhythm class discrimination which – according to the rhythmic hypothesis – is not applicable very early in life, has not been s…
Unattended distributional training can shift phoneme boundaries
Listeners are sensitive to speech sounds’ probability distributions. Distributional training (DT) studies with adults typically involve conscious activation of phoneme labels. We show that distributional exposure can shift existing phoneme boundaries (Spanish /e/–/i/) pre-attentively. Using a DT paradigm involving two bimodal distributions we assessed listener's neural discrimination across three sounds, showing pre-to-post-test improvement for t…
Phonological features emerge substance-freely from the phonetics and the morphology
Theories of phonology claim variously that phonological elements are either innate or emergent, and either substance-full or substance-free. A hitherto underdeveloped source of evidence for choosing between the four possible combinations of these claims lies in showing precisely how a child can acquire phonological elements. This article presents computer simulations that showcase a learning algorithm with which the learner creates phonological e…
The McGurk effect in the time of pandemic
Phonetic drift reveals interconnected phonological representations in simultaneous bilinguals
Purpose: The interconnectedness of phonological categories between the two languages of early bilinguals has previously been explored using single-probe speech production and perception data. Our goal was to tap into bilingual phonological representations in another way, namely via monitoring instances of phonetic drift due to changes in language exposure. Design: We report a case study of two teenage English–Czech simultaneous bilinguals who liv…
The development of infants’ sensitivity to native versus non‐native rhythm
Speech rhythm is considered one of the first windows into the native language, and the taxonomy of rhythm classes is commonly used to explain early language discrimination. Relying on formal rhythm classification is problematic for two reasons. First, it is not known to which extent infants’ sensitivity to language variation is attributable to rhythm alone, and second, it is not known how infants discriminate languages not classified in any of th…
Distributional Learning of Speech Sounds
Distributional learning is typically understood as (unattended) tracking of stimulus probabilities. Distributional training with speech yields mixed results and the influencing factors have not yet been fully investigated. This study explored whether prior linguistic experience could have an effect on distributional learning outcomes. Czech and Greek adults, whose native languages contain and lack abstract length categories, respectively, were ex…
The What and When of Universal Perception
The young universal listener is an established concept in psycholinguistics. However, it is unclear what abilities universal perception entails and at what age it exists. This article aims to motivate rethinking about what it means to be a universal listener. Early and recent studies on infant speech acquisition are reviewed, considered in the light of cross‐language variation and adult performance, and finally linked to the current understanding…
F2 slope as a Perceptual Cue for the Front–Back Contrast in Standard Southern British English
Acoustic studies of several languages indicate that second-formant (F2) slopes in high vowels have opposing directions (independent of consonantal context): front [iː]-like vowels are produced with a rising F2 slope, whereas back [uː]-like vowels are produced with a falling F2 slope. The present study first reports acoustic measurements that confirm this pattern for the English variety of Standard Southern British English (SSBE), where /uː/ has s…
Czech spoken in Bohemia and Moravia
As a western Slavic language of the Indo-European family, Czech is closest to Slovak and Polish. It is spoken as a native language by nearly 10 million people in the Czech Republic (Czech Statistical Office n.d.). About two million people living abroad, mostly in the USA, Canada, Austria, Germany, Slovakia, and the UK, claim Czech heritage (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic 2009). However, it is not known how many of them are nati…
Czech spoken in Bohemia and Moravia
As a western Slavic language of the Indo-European family, Czech is closest to Slovak and Polish. It is spoken as a native language by nearly 10 million people in the Czech Republic (Czech Statistical Office n.d.). About two million people living abroad, mostly in the USA, Canada, Austria, Germany, Slovakia, and the UK, claim Czech heritage (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic 2009). However, it is not known how many of them are nati…
F2 slope as a Perceptual Cue for the Front–Back Contrast in Standard Southern British English
Acoustic studies of several languages indicate that second-formant (F2) slopes in high vowels have opposing directions (independent of consonantal context): front [iː]-like vowels are produced with a rising F2 slope, whereas back [uː]-like vowels are produced with a falling F2 slope. The present study first reports acoustic measurements that confirm this pattern for the English variety of Standard Southern British English (SSBE), where /uː/ has s…
Distributional Learning of Speech Sounds
Distributional learning is typically understood as (unattended) tracking of stimulus probabilities. Distributional training with speech yields mixed results and the influencing factors have not yet been fully investigated. This study explored whether prior linguistic experience could have an effect on distributional learning outcomes. Czech and Greek adults, whose native languages contain and lack abstract length categories, respectively, were ex…
Czech spoken in Bohemia and Moravia
As a western Slavic language of the Indo-European family, Czech is closest to Slovak and Polish. It is spoken as a native language by nearly 10 million people in the Czech Republic (Czech Statistical Office n.d.). About two million people living abroad, mostly in the USA, Canada, Austria, Germany, Slovakia, and the UK, claim Czech heritage (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic 2009). However, it is not known how many of them are nati…
F2 slope as a Perceptual Cue for the Front–Back Contrast in Standard Southern British English
Acoustic studies of several languages indicate that second-formant (F2) slopes in high vowels have opposing directions (independent of consonantal context): front [iː]-like vowels are produced with a rising F2 slope, whereas back [uː]-like vowels are produced with a falling F2 slope. The present study first reports acoustic measurements that confirm this pattern for the English variety of Standard Southern British English (SSBE), where /uː/ has s…
The What and When of Universal Perception
The young universal listener is an established concept in psycholinguistics. However, it is unclear what abilities universal perception entails and at what age it exists. This article aims to motivate rethinking about what it means to be a universal listener. Early and recent studies on infant speech acquisition are reviewed, considered in the light of cross‐language variation and adult performance, and finally linked to the current understanding…
The McGurk effect in the time of pandemic
Phonetic drift reveals interconnected phonological representations in simultaneous bilinguals
Purpose: The interconnectedness of phonological categories between the two languages of early bilinguals has previously been explored using single-probe speech production and perception data. Our goal was to tap into bilingual phonological representations in another way, namely via monitoring instances of phonetic drift due to changes in language exposure. Design: We report a case study of two teenage English–Czech simultaneous bilinguals who liv…
The development of infants’ sensitivity to native versus non‐native rhythm
Speech rhythm is considered one of the first windows into the native language, and the taxonomy of rhythm classes is commonly used to explain early language discrimination. Relying on formal rhythm classification is problematic for two reasons. First, it is not known to which extent infants’ sensitivity to language variation is attributable to rhythm alone, and second, it is not known how infants discriminate languages not classified in any of th…
Distributional Learning of Speech Sounds
Distributional learning is typically understood as (unattended) tracking of stimulus probabilities. Distributional training with speech yields mixed results and the influencing factors have not yet been fully investigated. This study explored whether prior linguistic experience could have an effect on distributional learning outcomes. Czech and Greek adults, whose native languages contain and lack abstract length categories, respectively, were ex…
Unattended distributional training can shift phoneme boundaries
Listeners are sensitive to speech sounds’ probability distributions. Distributional training (DT) studies with adults typically involve conscious activation of phoneme labels. We show that distributional exposure can shift existing phoneme boundaries (Spanish /e/–/i/) pre-attentively. Using a DT paradigm involving two bimodal distributions we assessed listener's neural discrimination across three sounds, showing pre-to-post-test improvement for t…
Phonological features emerge substance-freely from the phonetics and the morphology
Theories of phonology claim variously that phonological elements are either innate or emergent, and either substance-full or substance-free. A hitherto underdeveloped source of evidence for choosing between the four possible combinations of these claims lies in showing precisely how a child can acquire phonological elements. This article presents computer simulations that showcase a learning algorithm with which the learner creates phonological e…
Infants' reliance on rhythm to distinguish languages
This article reviews empirical methods and findings on early language discrimination, questioning rhythm‐class based hypotheses on language discrimination in infancy, as well as the assumption that early language discrimination is driven primarily (or solely) by temporal prosodic cues. The present work argues that within‐rhythm class discrimination which – according to the rhythmic hypothesis – is not applicable very early in life, has not been s…
Beyond the bilingual disadvantage
Aims and objectives: Although bilingualism and its effects on cognition and language processing are widely studied, when it comes to bilingualism across modalities, the current understanding is limited. Here, we report a letter fluency task that compared word-retrieval outcomes and strategies in early bimodal bilinguals (Czech and Czech sign language) and monolinguals (Czech). Methodology: Bimodal bilinguals ( n = 15) and monolinguals ( n = 15) m…
Tuning in to the prosody of a novel language is easier without orthography
Mastering prosody is a different task for adults learning a second language and infants acquiring their first. While prosody crucially aids the process of L1 acquisition, for adult L2 learners it is often considerably challenging. Is it because of an age-related decline in the language-learning ability or because of unfavorable learning conditions? We investigated whether adults can auditorily sensitize to the prosody of a novel language, and whe…
Preference for native-accented peers in monolingual and bilingual children acquiring Czech
This study investigates the effect of foreign accent in a friendship choice in preschool children and how the native-accent bias can be modulated by bilingual upbringing
A Cross-Language Comparison of Length Perception in Italian-Learning Adults
This study investigates how adult learners perceive segmental length in L2 Italian. We tested 104 learners from 5 L1 backgrounds that differ in their phonological treatment of quantity: Finnish (vowel and consonant length), Czech and Slovak (vowel length), German (restricted vowel length), and Spanish (no phonemic length). These groups were compared with 34 native speakers of Italian, a language with distinctive consonant length (e.g., papa ‘Pope…
Psychology (11 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (10 works) · Language Development and Disorders (9 works) · Linguistics (9 works) · Cognitive psychology (8 works) · Czech (5 works) · Perception (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works)