Filip Smolík

Email: smolik@praha(dot)psu(dot)cas(dot)cz

Dr. Filip Smolík is a senior research scientist at the Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences, and professor of psychology at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University Prague. He got his master's degree in psychology at Charles University, and his Ph.D. in the interdisciplinary Child Language Doctoral Program at the University of Kansas.

He is mainly interested in the early development of grammar, especially in comprehension, such as the comprehension of grammatical case, gender and number, their morphological marking and interactions with word order. He also has research programs in the effects of word semantics, e. g. imageability, on the acquisition and processing of grammar, interactions between social understanding and the acquisition of grammatical markers of person, and the structure of verbal working memory in typical children and children with language impairments. He is involved in the development of various assessment tools in Czech, including the Czech adaptations of MacArthur CDI inventories.

Filip has served as one of the editors for language section of the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, and is currently serving as an associate editor in Applied Psycholinguistics. Locally, he has been the President of the Czech-Moravian Psychological Society. In 2024, he served as the Congress Chair for our XVIth IASCL Congress.