Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae

Person-Related Identification Information

• 21/12/1995, Brno, Czech Republic

Department

• Department of Czech Language, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University

Employment - Position

• Instructor

Education and Academic Qualifications

• 2025: Ph.D. Dissertation submitted, Cognitive Science, 'The nature of alternatives in the processing of scalar implicatures and focus', Osnabrück University
• 2020: Master of Science (With Distinction), Psychology of Language, 'Testing Alternative Semantics in Comprehension: The Case of Focused VP-constituents', University of Edinburgh
• 2019: Bachelor of Arts (First Class), Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics, 'Focus Alternatives in Czech Online and Offline', University of Oxford, St Hugh's College

Employment

• 2022 - 2024: Research Associate, Scales in Language Processing and Acquisition, Institute of Cognitive Science, Osnabrück University
• 2021 - 2024: Research Associate, Scales in Language Processing and Acquisition, Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam
• 2020 - 2021: Researcher, Project OPTIONS, Czech Priorities

Teaching Activities

• CJJ64 The Roman Jakobson Linguistic Seminar
• CJJ63 Psycholinguistics
• CJJ62 Psycholinguistics and the experimental study of language (in Czech)
• CJBB66 Pragmatics (in Czech)

Scientific and Research Activities

• Psycholinguistics, discourse and sentence comprehension, information structure
• I am interested in how our mind makes sense of language in context in real time as utterances are being processed. Currently, I am researching how the information structure category of focus is comprehended and whether its contribution to the construction of meaning online can be fully explained by appealing to the notion of semantic alternatives.

Internship

• 2024: Visiting academic, Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford

Major Publications

• LACINA, Radim and Nicole GOTZNER. Only the (informationally) stronger survive: A probe recognition study with scale-mates and antonyms. Online. In Tyler Knowlton, Florian Schwarz, Anna Papafragou. Proceedings of Experiments in Linguistic Meaning. 3rd ed. Neuvedeno: Linguistic Society of America, 2025, p. 201-213. ISSN 2694-1791. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.3765/elm.3.5796. URL info
• LACINA, Radim. The negative concord illusion: an acceptability study with Czech neg-words. Linguistics Vanguard. Germany: Walter De Gryuter, 2025, vol. 11, No 1, p. 1-12. ISSN 2199-174X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2024-0061. URL info
• GOTZNER, Nicole and Radim LACINA. Generating and Selecting Alternatives for Scalar Implicature Computation: The Alternative Activation Account and Other Theories. Online. In Nicole Gotzner, Jesse A. Harris, Richard Breheny, Yael Sharvit. Alternatives in Grammar and Cognition. Cham (Switzerland): Palgrave Macmillan, 2025, p. 13-38. Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition. ISBN 978-3-031-76675-6. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-76676-3_2. URL info
• LACINA, Radim, Anna LAURINAVICHYUTE and Jan CHROMÝ. Only case-syncretic nouns attract: Czech and Slovak gender agreement. Journal of Memory and Language. United States: Elsevier, 2025, vol. 143, August 2025, p. 1-15. ISSN 0749-596X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2025.104623. URL info
• LACINA, Radim and Jakub DOTLAČIL. Grammaticality illusions in Czech: A speeded acceptability study of agreement attraction. Online. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. 46th ed. 2024. URL info
• LACINA, Radim and Nicole GOTZNER. Exploring scalar diversity through priming: A lexical decision study with adjectives. Online. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. 46th ed. 2024. URL info
• LACINA, Radim, Patrick STURT and Nicole GOTZNER. The comprehension of broad focus: Probing alternatives to verb phrases. In Robin Lemke, Lisa Schäfer, Ingo Reich. Information structure and information theory. Berlin: Language Science Press, 2024, p. 23-53. Topics as the Grammar-Discourse Interface 10. ISBN 978-3-96110-481-9. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12784266. URL info
• LACINA, Radim. Under no illusion: An acceptability study on Czech agreement attraction. Naše řeč. Praha: Akademie věd České republiky, 2024, vol. 107, No 3, p. 119-132. ISSN 0027-8203. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.58756/n31072401. URL info
• CHROMÝ, Jan, Radim LACINA and Jakub DOTLAČIL. Number Agreement Attraction in Czech Comprehension: Negligible Facilitation Effects. Online. Open Mind. MIT Press, 2023, vol. 7, p. 802-836. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00107. URL info
• CHROMÝ, Jan, James BRAND, Anna LAURINAVICHYUTE and Radim LACINA. Number Agreement Attraction in Czech and English Comprehension: A Direct Experimental Comparison. Glossa Psycholinguistics. 2023, vol. 2, No 1. ISSN 2767-0279. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5070/G6011235. URL info
• LACINA, Radim, Radek ŠIMÍK and Nicole GOTZNER. 'Czech' the alternatives: A probe recognition study of focus and word order. Online. In Maria Onoeva, Anna Staňková, Radek Šimík. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung. Praha, 2023, p. 365-380. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.18148/sub/2023.v27.1075. URL info
• LACINA, Radim, Stavroula ALEXANDROPOULOU, Eszter RONAI and Nicole GOTZNER. Priming scalar alternatives: The effects of negation and antonymy. In Experimental Linguistics Talks. 2023. info
• LACINA, Radim and Jan CHROMÝ. No agreement attraction facilitation observed in Czech: Not even syncretism helps. Online. In Jennifer Culbertson, Andrew Perfors, Hugh Rabagliati, Veronica Ramenzoni. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. 46th ed. 2022, p. 2423-2430. URL info

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