doc. PhDr. Filip Smolík, Ph.D., DSc.

Institute of Psychology
The Czech Academy of Sciences
Pod Vodárenskou věží 1143/4
182 00 Prague 8
Phone: +420 266 053 849
Email: smolik@praha.psu.cas.cz

I am a developmental psycholinguist working on a range of topics but with a special interest in the development of grammatical knowledge and early use of grammar in comprehension. I work using experimental methods (preferential looking, eyetracking) as well as language sample analyses. I am starting to work with EEG/ERP and fNIRS as well.

My main areas include:

• early knowledge and comprehension of grammatical case, gender and number, their morphological marking and their interaction with word order
• effects of word imageability and other word-level variables at the acquisition of lexicon, morphological marking and the use of words in syntactic structures; including the effects of these factors in adults
• relations between social understanding, false belief, and person reference in language (pronouns, person inflections)
• grammatical markers of language impairment (esp. in Czech), relations between language knowledge and working memory (esp. in the stentence imitation task)
• development of assessment tools (CDI, original tests)

Selected journal publications

(see also the complete publications list)

Articles

• Matiasovitsová, K., Čechová, P., Sláma, J., Homolková, K., & Smolík, F. (2024). Mean Length of Utterance in Czech Toddlers: Validity Estimates and Comparison of Words, Morphemes, and Syllables. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1-16. DOI:10.1044/2023_JSLHR-23-00251
• 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. DOI: 10.1044/2023_JSLHR-22-00591
• Smolík, F., Chromá, A. (2022). About me, you and her: Personal pronouns are developmentally preceded by mental state language. Journal of Child Language, 1-18. DOI:10.1017/S030500092100091X
• Smolík, F., Bláhová, V. (2022). Here come the nouns: Czech two-year-olds use verb number endings to predict sentence subjects. Cognition 219, 104964. DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104964
• Smolík, F., & Bláhová, V. (2019). Czech 23-month-olds use gender agreement to anticipate upcoming nouns. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 178, 251-265. DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2018.10.004
• 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. DOI: 10.1111/sode.12044
• Rice, M. L., Smolik, F., Perpich, D., Thompson, T., Rytting, N., & Blossom, M. (2010). Mean Length of Utterance Levels in 6-Month Intervals for Children 3 to 9 Years with and without Language Impairments. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 53(2), 333-349. DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2009/08-0183)

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

Professional experience