Dr. Michal Láznička

Abstract

It has long been established that certain distributional properties of words can impact the fluency of typical language production. Using a new approach to measuring dispersion and association strength, I will present an analysis of data from a large corpus of spoken Czech and a small corpus of Czech aphasia. I will show how frequency of use, dispersion, and strength of association influence the occurrence of disfluencies in language production in similar ways both in typical speakers and speakers with aphasia.

Biography

Dr Michal Láznička is Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Birmingham and part of Postdoctoral Research Associates for Out Of Our Minds

Dr Michal Láznička is a postdoctoral scholar in the Out of our Minds research group.

He holds a PhD in General Linguistics from Charles University, Prague. Michal is a cognitive linguist interested in the representation and processing of grammatical constructions. His primary focus is on language in aphasia, where he explores the ways in which usage-based construction grammar can contribute to a better understanding of the condition.

Michal joins OOOMinds as a postdoctoral research fellow on a Johannes Amos Comenius project Language in Aphasia with Naïve Discriminative Learning, where he combines learning theory and usage-based linguistics to study inflectional morphology in Czech speakers with aphasia.