Teaching
Teaching
Linguistics is the science of language. This is my fundamental principle in teaching. What this means is that the main message that I want my students to take from any of my classes is that we can gain genuine understanding of language by rigorously applying the scientitic method. Being a linguist means being curious and audacious in one's thinking. Rather than a set body of knowledge, linguistics is our collective evolving understanding of one of the very things that make us human. I try to impart this message specifically within the domains that most interest me - the real time processing of language (psycholinguistics) and the experimental study of meaning in context (pragmatics).
Course type: Compulsory course for BA students in the Autumn Semester
Language of instruction: Czech
Assessment: Written exam (A to F)
ECTS: 5 credits
Within the BA study programmes of Czech Language and Literature and Computer Linguistics, this is a compulsory introductory course in the first semester. In this lecture series, we cover what language is and how linguistics studies it. We introduce different fields within linguistics and give an overview of the history of the discipline. The main aim of the course is to get the students to start thinking about language scientifically.
Course type: Elective seminar for BA students in the Autumn Semester
Language of instruction: Czech
Assessment: Pass/Fail
ECTS: 5 credits
This is a Czech-taught general introduction to the field of psycholinguistics and experimental linguistics. The course is built on a combination of lectures, class discussion on assigned readings of primary research studies in psycholinguistics and a joint research project. In this course, students get an insight into the experimental study of language and get to conduct a pilot experiment. They gain skills in experimental design and analysis.
Course type: Elective seminar for MA students in the Autumn Semester
Language of instruction: English
Assessment: Pass/Fail
ECTS: 5 credits
This is an English-taught general introduction to the field of psycholinguistics divided into three main areas, namely acquisition, production and comprehension. The course is built on a combination of lectures and class discussion on assigned readings of primary research studies in psycholinguistics.
Course type: Elective seminar for MA students in the Spring Semester
Language of instruction: Czech
Assessment: Pass/Fail
ECTS: 5 credits
This Masters' level course is an introduction to the field of pragmatics with a particular focus on implicatures. We cover speech acts, implicatures, theories of pragmatics (Grice, post-Gricean, grammatical theories of implicatures, relevance theory), metaphor, deixis, politeness and experimental pragmatics.
Under construction, first available in the Autumn Semester 2026
At the Department of Czech Language, me and Marcin Wągiel co-organise an invited lecture series, which can also be signed up for by students for credit. We aim to bring both senior recognised academics as well as early career researchers to share their cutting-edge research with us in Brno. See more information on the Seminar's dedicated website. Let us know if you'd like to come and give a talk!
Below, you can find areas that I would be happy to supervise either a BA or an MA thesis as the main supervisor. In general, I supervise within the fields of psycholinguistics and experimental pragmatics. The list of topics is not inclusive, but these are the topics that I feel the most comfortable in. However, if you are reading this as a student at Masaryk and you have topic of your own in mind within the two fields mentioned, feel free to contact me. I'm also available as a second supervisor (i.e., konzultant) if you need my expertise for any particular part of your thesis.
Within cognitive science, illusions within areas such as vision have been used to great effect to study the processes happening inside our minds. Linguistic illusions, that is cases where incoming linguistic input is in some way systematically misrepresented, are crucial to our understanding of how comprehending language in real time actually works. If you're interested in this area, see this paper by Phillips, Wagers and Lau (2011) that sets out why illusions are important. I'm happy to supervise work on any illusion phenomenon happening above the phonological level. I myself have worked on agreement attraction and NPI and NCI illusions.
Speakers often mean more than they say and hearers can reconstruct this meaning, but under what conditions does this actually happen and how do the manage to do it in real time ? This is the broad question that the field of experimental pragmatics is asking. Within this field, I have mostly worked on (scalar) implicatures and the information structure category of focus. Let me know if you're interested in working within this field. See my PhD dissertation to get a flavour of what I have expertise in.
Vendula Krejsová (ongoing). Scalar diversity in Czech adjectives [CZ]
Jakub Kubica (ongoing). Negative illusions [EN]
Tereza Merelová (ongoing). Polarity item illusions in L2 English L1 Czech speakers [EN]
Julia Sophie Fülling (2025). The Effect of Negation on the Activation of Scalar Alternatives during Online Processing [EN] (Osnabrück University)
Yevhenii Karpizenkov (ongoing). Benchmarking Pragmatic Reasoning of Large Language Models in the Czech Language [EN]
Tereza Junková (ongoing). Phonetic realization of prefixal and prepositional boundaries in Czech: an experimental study [CZ]
Lotta Fischer (2025). Which theoretical model, the Two-Step Simulation Theory or the Constraint-Based model, provides a more comprehensive account for negation processing considering the influence of context [EN] (at Osnabrück University)
Rahel Bracht (2023). An Evaluation of the Revised Hierarchical Model and the Bilingual: Dual Coding Theory in Relation to Language-dependent Recall in Bilinguals [EN] (at Osnabrück University)
Lucie Návratová (2022). Affective processing in functional bilinguals: a comparison of word emotionality ratings to monolingual norms [EN] (at Dept of Psychology, FSS Masaryk University)
Julie Frömelová (ongoing). Compounding in Czech speakers with aphasia [EN]
Lucie Braunerová (2025). Prosodic types of liquids in Czech and their phonetic properties: An experimental study [CZ] (Dean's Award for an Outstanding Final Thesis)
Rhiana Horovská (2024). Anaphors, person constraint and distributivity: experimental study [EN]