Pospíšilová Eva, Mgr.
Area of research specialization:
- Language consulting, language popularization, psycholinguistics, phonetics
Education:
2024–present Faculty of Arts, Charles University
- Ph.D. program in Czech Language
- Dissertation: Developmental aspects of immediate recall of information from written and spoken sentences (Supervisor: doc. Mgr. Jan Chromý, Ph.D.)
2021–2024 Faculty of Arts, Charles University
- M.A. program in Empirical and Comparative Linguistics
- Thesis: The effect of sound symbolism on the processing of Czech words in individuals with aphasia (Supervisor: Mgr. Michal Láznička, Ph.D.)
2021–present Faculty of Arts, Charles University
- M.A. program in Czech Language – Specialization Studies and Phonetics
2017–2021 Faculty of Arts, Charles University
- B.A. program in Czech Language and Literature
- Thesis: The semantics of arguments and relative frequency in the comprehension of passive constructions in individuals with aphasia (Supervisor: Mgr. Michal Láznička, Ph.D.)
2009–2017 Gymnázium Opatov, Prague
Work experience:
2022–present Czech Language Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences
- Research specialist in the Department of Language Cultivation
2020–2021 Czech Language Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences
- Annotator of database language queries in the Department of Language Cultivation
2019–2022 Institute of Czech Language and Theory of Communication, Faculty of Arts, Charles University
- Research assistant
March 2019 – July 2019 Institute of Theoretical and Computational Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Charles University
- Annotator and anonymizer of transcribed student texts for acquisition corpora
November 2018 – December 2018 Czech Language Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences
- Proofreader for the Czech-German Dictionary by Fr. Št. Kott
Grants and projects:
2024–2026 Large Language Models through the Lens of Corpus Linguistics (GA ČR, 24-11725S).
- Principal Investigator: doc. PhDr. Jiří Milička, Ph.D. (Department of Czech National Corpus, Institute of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Charles University)
2023–2024 Tell me how to say it right! (TELMER, 2022-2-EE01-KA210-ADU-000101583), European Commission – Erasmus+ Programme.
- Main coordinator: Eesti Keele Instituut (Institute of the Estonian Language).
- Co-researchers: Kamila Smejkalová, Ph.D.; since 2023 Ondřej Dufek, Ph.D.
Publications:
- Milička, J., Marklová, A., VanSlambrouck, K., Pospíšilová, E., Šimsová, J., Harvan, S., & Drobil, O. (2024). Large language models are able to downplay their cognitive abilities to fit the persona they simulate. PLOS ONE, 19(3).
Conference participation:
- From DJD to IJP: Queries focused on abbreviations and symbols from the language consultancy practice at the Czech Language Institute of CAS. 33rd Colloquium of Young Linguists, Banská Bystrica – Šachtičky, 4 Dec 2024
- “Readers have to figure it out somehow.” Preparation of a study on the aloud reading of expressions with asterisk*. 33rd Colloquium of Young Linguists, Banská Bystrica – Šachtičky, 4 Dec 2024 [with Klára Dvořáková and Barbora Martinkovičová]
- The effect of sound symbolism on the processing of Czech words in persons with aphasia. Biennale of Czech Linguistics 2024, Prague, 19 Sept 2024 [with Michal Láznička]
- The effect of sound symbolism on the processing of Czech words in persons with aphasia. 21st International Congress of Linguists, Poznań, 13 Sept 2024 [with Michal Láznička]
- The effect of argument semantics and relative frequency on the perception of passive constructions in Czech. CALC-2: The 2nd Meeting of the Czech Association for Language and Cognition, Prague, 25 Nov 2022
- The effect of visual features on the perception of pseudowords by non-native speakers of English. 41st Student Workshop Žďárek, Kutná Hora, 6 Nov 2021 [with Kristina Jarošová]
Teaching:
- Summer 2023, 2024: Czech corrective pronunciation at the Summer School of Slavonic Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University
- Academic year 2023/2024 and winter semester 2024/2025: Czech corrective pronunciation as part of the Czech Studies program, Faculty of Arts, Charles University
- Summer semester 2024/2025: Seminar Phonetics and Phonology of Czech II at the Institute of Phonetics, Faculty of Arts, Charles University
Other:
- Since 2019: member of the research team Experimental Research on Central European Languages Lab (ERCEL Lab) at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University