doc. PhDr. Filip Smolík, Ph.D., DSc.

Institute of Psychology
The Czech Academy of Sciences
Hybernská 8, 110 00 Praha 1
Phone +420 221 403 907, fax +420 222 221 652
Email: smolik@praha.psu.cas.cz

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Areas of interest

Language acquisition, the development of grammatical knowledge, tools for assessing grammar and language development
Psycholinguistics, processing of grammatical structure
Genetics of cognitive abilities
Statistical methods for longitudinal research and non-normally distributed data

Representative publications

(see also the complete publications list)

Articles

Smolík, F., Bláhová, V. (2022). Here come the nouns: Czech two-year-olds use verb number endings to predict sentence subjects. Cognition 219, 104964.

Smolík, F., & Bytešníková, I. (2021). Validity of the SDDS: A 40-item vocabulary screening tool for 18-to 42-month olds in Czech. Journal of Communication Disorders, 93, 106146.

Smolík, F., & Matiasovitsová, K. (2021). Sentence imitation with masked morphemes in Czech: Memory, morpheme frequency, and morphological richness. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 64(1), 105-120.

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(3), 423-441.

Smolík, F. (2019). Imageability and neighborhood density facilitate the age of word acquisition in czech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 62(5), 1403-1415.

Smolík, F., & Bláhová, V. (2019). Czech 23-month-olds use gender agreement to anticipate upcoming nouns. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 178, 251-265.

Smolík, F. (2015). Word order and information structure in Czech 3-and 4-year-olds' comprehension. First Language, 35, 237-253.

Smolík, F., Vávrů, P. (2014). Sentence imitation as a marker of SLI in Czech: disproportionate impairment of verbs and clitics. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing research, 57, 837-849

Smolík, F. (2014). Noun imageability facilitates the acquisition of plurals: survival analysis of plural emergence in children. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 43, 335-350.

Marková, G., Smolík, F. (2014). What do you think? The relationship between person reference and communication about the mind in toddlers. Social Development, 23, 61-79.

Diagnostic methods

Smolík, F., Bláhová, V., Bartoš, F. (2019). Receptivní slovník & Opakování vět [Receptive vocabulary & Sentence repetition]. Praha: Národní ústav pro vzdělávání.

Smolík, F., Turková, J., Malechová, V., Votavová, K. (2018). Dotazník vývoje komunikace DoVyKo 2. [Communicative development inventory DoVyKo 2. The Czech adaptation of MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories: Words and Senntences]. Praha, Czech Republic: Faculty of Arts, Charles University.

Education

2001-2006	Child Language Program, University of Kansas v Lawrence, KS, USA. PhD. awarded 2006. Dissertation Grammar sensitivity in children: syntactic priming and error detection. Advisor: Mabel Rice. Committee: Susan Kemper, Vicky Peyton, Holly Storkel, Mike Vitevitch.
2000	PhDr. ("small doctorate"), rigorous exam in General Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague.
1994-1999	Studies in Psychology program, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, concentration in theory and research. Thesis Psychologické aspekty osvojování jazyka (Psychological aspects of language acquistion).
1993-1994	Studies in Psychology program, Faculty of Arts, Palacky University, Olomouc.

Professional experience

2002-2006	Graduate research assistant, Language acquisition studies lab, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA.
1996-present	Institute of Psychology, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic. Prague branch. Initialy research assistant, currently postdoc.
1997-1998	Research assistant, Laboratory of psychometric studies, Psychiatric center Prague.Participated in the development of the Prague newborn behavior description method.