Research Output

Bleotu, A., Ivan, R., Nicolae, A. C, Bîlbîie, G., Benz, A., Panaitescu, M., & Tieu, L. (2023). Not all complex disjunctions are alike: On inclusive and conjunctive interpretations in child Romanian. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 45. Retrieved from link. 

Bleotu, A., Tieu, L., Bîlbîie, G., Panaitescu, M., Slăvuţeanu, G., Benz, A., & Nicolae, A. (2024) Investigating the effect of prosodic markedness on the interpretation of simple disjunction in Romanian. Isogloss 10(1)/9, 1-23, link.

Bleotu, A., Bîlbîie, G., Cremers, A., Panaitescu, M., Benz, A., Nicolae, A., Casa, M. & Tieu, L. Does hearing and help children understand or? Insights into scales and relevance from the acquisition of disjunction in child Romanian. Under review at  Journal of Child Language.

Bleotu, A., Ivan, R., Bîlbîie, G., Benz, A., Cremers, A. Panaitescu, M., Tieu, L., & Nicolae, A. The conjunctive interpretation of disjunction is not merely an experimental artifact: Evidence from multiple disjunctions in child Romanian. Under review at Journal of Semantics.

25 November 2022: talk by Adina Camelia Bleotu, Rudmila Rodica Ivan, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Monica Casa, Mara Panaitescu, Andreea Nicolae, Anton Benz, Lyn Tieu: “Simple and Complex Disjunction in Romanian: An Experimental Approach” at the workshop Advances in Generative Grammar, The Annual International Conference of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest, Bucharest.

9-11 March 2023: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Rodica Ivan, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Monica Casa, Mara Panaitescu, Andreea Nicolae, Anton Benz & Lyn Tieu. “Experimental insights into markedness and the interpretation of disjunction in Romanian.” Poster presented at the 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Pittsburgh (online)

15 April 2023: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Rodica Ivan, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Monica Casa, Mara Panaitescu, Andreea Nicolae, Anton Benz & Lyn Tieu. “Experimental insights into multiple disjunctions in child Romanian.” Talk presented at Language Acquisition Workshop in New England (LAWNE)

17 May 2023: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Rodica Ivan, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Monica Casa, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz, Lyn Tieu & Andreea Nicolae. “The conjunctive interpretation of disjunction is not merely an experimental artefact. Insights from multiple disjunctions in child Romanian”. Special lecture given at the Language Acquisition Research Center (LARC), UMass Amherst

9-10 June 2023: Adina Camelia Bleotu, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu, Monica Casa, Anton Benz, Andreea Nicolae, Lyn Tieu. “Disjunction in child Romanian and the Alternatives-based Approach”. Paper to be presented at the Annual International Conference of the English Department (AICED 24), University of Bucharest.

26-30 June 2023: Adina Camelia Bleotu, Rodica Ivan, Andreea Nicolae, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Anton Benz, Mara Panaitescu, Lyn Tieu,  “Insights into the acquisition of simple and complex disjunction markers in Romanian”. Paper to be presented at the 53rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 53), INALCO, Paris.

26-29 July 2023: Adina Camelia Bleotu, Rodica Ivan, Andreea Nicolae, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Anton Benz, Mara Panaitescu, Lyn Tieu. “Not all complex disjunctions are alike: On inclusive and conjunctive interpretations in child Romanian.” Poster to be presented at CogSci 2023, Sydney, Australia.

31 August-2 September 2023: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Rodica Ivan, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Monica Casa, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz, Lyn Tieu & Andreea Nicolae. “Evidence from child Romanian for the conjunctive interpretation of disjunction.” Poster to be presented at 29th AMLaP conference, Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, San Sebastian, Spain.

31 August-2 September 2023: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Rodica Ivan, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Monica Casa, Mara Panaitescu, Andreea Nicolae, Anton Benz & Lyn Tieu “Investigating the effect of prosodic markedness on the interpretation of simple disjunction in Romanian.” Poster to be presented at 29th AMLaP conference, Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, San Sebastian, Spain.

5-8 September 2023: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Rodica Ivan, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Monica Casa, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz, Lyn Tieu & Andreea Nicolae. “Multiple disjunctions in child Romanian: On the possible sources of conjunctive readings.” Paper to be presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 28, Ruhr University Bochum.

2-5 November 2023: Adina Camelia Bleotu, Andreea Nicolae, Anton Benz, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu, Monica Casa and Lyn Tieu, “On the role of alternatives and QUD in implicatures with disjunction in child Romanian”. Poster presented at BUCLD 48.

18 November 2023: Adina Camelia Bleotu, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu (University of Bucharest), Anton Benz (ZAS Berlin), Andreea Nicolae (ZAS Berlin), Lyn Tieu (University of Toronto), “Coloring disjunction in child Romanian”, Talk at the Workshop on Logical Operators: Theory and Acquisition, at the University of Bucharest.

22 February 2024: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Andreea Nicolae, Gabriela Bilbiie, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz & Lyn Tieu. “Is there a conjunctive default in the interpretation of disjunction? A nonce word approach.” Poster presented at Linguistic Evidence 2024, University of Potsdam.

14 April 2024: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Andreea Nicolae, Anton Benz, Alexandre Cremers, Gabriela Bilbiie, Mara Panaitescu & Lyn Tieu. “Does merely hearing and boost implicatures with disjunction or is relevance also needed?” Paper presented at the 42nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, UC Berkeley.

16-18 May 2024: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Lyn Tieu, Mara Panaitescu, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Anton Benz & Andreea Nicolae. “Negative disjunctive sentences in child and adult Romanian: A preference for strong interpretations.” Poster presented at the 37th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Michigan.

13 June 2024: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz, Andreea Nicolae, Gabriela Bîlbîie & Lyn Tieu. “Coloring disjunction in child Romanian.” Poster presented at Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM3), University of Pennsylvania.

14 June 2024: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Andreea Nicolae, Mara Panaitescu, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Anton Benz & Lyn Tieu. “A nonce investigation of a possible conjunctive default for disjunction.” Poster presented at Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM3), University of Pennsylvania.

5-7 September 2024: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Andreea Nicolae, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz & Lyn Tieu. “Incompatible disjuncts make children less conjunctive: Evidence from a covered box task.” Poster to be presented at the 30th AMLaP conference, Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Edinburgh, Scotland.

16-20 September 2024: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Andreea Cristina Nicolae, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz & Lyn Tieu. “The role of incompatible disjuncts in the acquisition of disjunction: Insights from studies involving actual and missing logical words in child Romanian”. Paper to be presented at the 29th Sinn und Bedeutung, Noto.

26-27 September 2024 : Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Andreea Nicolae, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz & Lyn Tieu. “Incompatible disjuncts boost the acquisition of disjunction in child Romanian.” Poster to be presented at the 5th Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference (XPRAG.it), Venice.

26-27 September 2024: Panaitescu, Mara, Lyn Tieu, Andreea Nicolae, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Anton Benz & Adina Camelia Bleotu. (2024). “Free choice inferences and exclusivity in adults: Insights from simple and complex disjunctions in Romanian.” Poster to be presented at the 5th Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference (XPRAG.it), Venice.

17 May 2023: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Rodica Ivan, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Monica Casa, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz, Lyn Tieu & Andreea Nicolae. “The conjunctive interpretation of disjunction is not merely an experimental artefact. Insights from multiple disjunctions in child Romanian”. Special invited lecture given at the Language Acquisition Research Center (LARC), UMass Amherst

1 August 2023: Adina Camelia Bleotu,  ‘How important is hearing and in understanding or? Insights into scales and relevance from the acquisition of disjunction in child Romanian’ at MARCS Research Meeting, Western Sydney University, based on joint work with Andreea Nicolae (ZAS Berlin), Gabriela Bîlbîie (University of Bucharest), Anton Benz (ZAS Berlin), Mara Panaitescu (University of Bucharest) & Lyn Tieu (University of Toronto) , link.

4 August 2023: Adina Camelia Bleotu & Mara Panaitescu (University of Bucharest), "Insights into scales and relevance from the acquisition of disjunction in child Romanian" at Macquarie University based on joint work with Andreea Nicolae (ZAS Berlin), Gabriela Bîlbîie (University of Bucharest), Anton Benz (ZAS Berlin), & Lyn Tieu (University of Toronto), link.

29 September 2023 Adina Camelia Bleotu, "On the role of conjunction and relevance from the acquisition of disjunction in child Romanian" Andreea Nicolae (ZAS Berlin), Gabriela Bîlbîie (University of Bucharest), Anton Benz (ZAS Berlin), Alexander Cremers (University of Vilnius), Mara Panaitescu (University of Bucharest), Monica Casa (University of Bucharest) & Lyn Tieu (University of Toronto) at the Cognitive Science of Language (CSoL) meeting, at the University of Toronto.

May 15 2024- Free Choice Inferences: Theoretical and Experimental Approaches- Online workshop organized by the University of Bucharest (Camelia Bleotu, Mara Panaitescu, Gabi Bîlbîie), ZAS Berlin (Anton Benz, Andreea Nicolae), University of Toronto (Lyn Tieu), link.

Logical Operators: Theory and Acquisition, part of the 8th edition of The Bucharest Colloquium of Language Acquisition (BUCLA 2023), link.