Publications
Conference Proceedings
Bleotu, A. C., 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. C., Nicolae, A., Benz, A., Cremers, A., Bîlbîie, G., Panaitescu, M., Casa, M., & Tieu, L. (2024). On the role of alternatives and QUD in implicatures with disjunction in child Romanian. In H. A. A. AlThagafi & J. Raya (Eds.), Proceedings of the 48th Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 87-100). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. link
Bleotu, A. C., Tieu, L., Bîlbîie, G., Benz, A., Panaitescu, M., Ivan, R., & Nicolae, A. C. On the conjunctive interpretation of the disjunction fie…fie in child Romanian. To appear in Proceedings of the 28th Sinn und Bedeutung.
Bleotu, A. C., Nicolae, A. C., Benz, A., Bîlbîie, G., Panaitescu, M., & Tieu, L. Does relevance without explicit alternatives boost exclusivity implicatures of disjunction? To appear in Proceedings of the 24th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. link.
Bleotu, A. C., Panaitescu, M., Benz, A., Nicolae, A. C., Bîlbîie, G., & Tieu, L. Coloring disjunction in child Romanian. To appear in Proceedings of the 3rd Experiments in Linguistic Meaning.
Bleotu, A. C., Nicolae, A., Panaitescu, M., Bîlbîie, G., Benz, A., & Tieu, L. A nonce investigation of a possible conjunctive default for disjunction. To appear in Proceedings of the 3rd Experiments in Linguistic Meaning.
Journal Articles
Bleotu, A. C., 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. C., Bîlbîie, G., Cremers, A., Panaitescu, M., Benz, A., Nicolae, A., & 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. C., 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.
Bleotu, A. C., Tieu, L., Panaitescu, M., Bîlbîie, G., Benz, A., & Nicolae, A. Scope, not strengthening, drives strong interpretations of negative disjunctive sentences: A comparison to positive disjunctive statements. Submitted.
Bleotu, A. C., Panaitescu, M., Cremers, A., Nicolae, A., Benz, A., Bîlbîie, G., & Tieu, L. On the sources of strong interpretations in children: Insights from plain and modal disjunctive statements. Submitted.
Bleotu, A. C., Bîlbîie, G., Benz, A., & Tieu, L. Agreement with singular disjuncts in child and adult Romanian: A picture-based investigation. Submitted.
Conferences
25 November 2022: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Rudmila Rodica Ivan, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Monica Casa, Mara Panaitescu, Andreea Nicolae, Anton Benz, Lyn Tieu: “Simple and Complex Disjunction in Romanian: An Experimental Approach”. Paper presented 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.” Paper 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 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 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 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 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 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 presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 28, Ruhr University Bochum.
20 September 2023: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Rodica Ivan, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Monica Casa, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz, Lyn Tieu & Andreea Nicolae. (2023). “The conjunctive interpretation of disjunction is not just an experimental artifact: Insights from marked and unmarked disjunctions in child Romanian.” Poster presented at the 10th biennial meeting of Experimental Pragmatics (XPRAG), Université Paris Cité
2-5 November 2023: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, 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: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, 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” Paper presented 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 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 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 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 presented at the 5th Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference (XPRAG.it), Venice.
4-6 December 2024: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz & Lyn Tieu. (2024). “Agreement with disjunction: Evidence for semantic-pragmatic and syntactic strategies.” Talk to be presented at Going Romance 38, Universidade do Minho.
18-20 December 2024: Panaitescu, Mara, Adina Camelia Bleotu, Alexandre Cremers Andreea Nicolae, Anton Benz, Gabriela Bîlbîie & Lyn Tieu. (2024). “More than one way to free choice: A view from child Romanian.” Paper to be presented at the 2024 Amsterdam Colloquium.
Invited talks
17 May 2023: Adina Camelia Bleotu presented The conjunctive interpretation of disjunction is not merely an experimental artefact. Insights from multiple disjunctions in child Romanian, joint work of Adina Camelia Bleotu (University of Bucharest), Rodica Ivan (Altus Assessment), Gabriela Bîlbîie (University of Bucharest), Monica Casa (University of Bucharest), Mara Panaitescu (University of Bucharest), Anton Benz (ZAS Berlin), Lyn Tieu (University of Toronto) & Andreea Nicolae (ZAS Berlin). Special invited lecture given at the Language Acquisition Research Center (LARC), UMass Amherst
1 August 2023: Adina Camelia Bleotu presented 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), presented 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 presented On the role of conjunction and relevance from the acquisition of disjunction in child Romanian, joint work with 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.
15 February 2024: Gabriela Bîlbîie gave an invited talk at LingLunch at Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, at Université Paris Cité: On the conjunctive interpretation of disjunction. Evidence from child Romanian, joint work of Adina Camelia Bleotu (University of Bucharest), Andreea Nicolae (ZAS Berlin), Gabriela Bîlbîie (University of Bucharest), Mara Panaitescu (University of Bucharest), Anton Benz (ZAS Berlin) & Lyn Tieu (University of Toronto), link
21 February 2024: Adina Camelia Bleotu gave an invited talk at ZAS Berlin: On the conjunctive interpretation of disjunction. Evidence from child Romanian, co-authored by Adina Camelia Bleotu (University of Bucharest), Andreea Nicolae (ZAS Berlin), Gabriela Bîlbîie (University of Bucharest), Mara Panaitescu (University of Bucharest), Anton Benz (ZAS Berlin) & Lyn Tieu (University of Toronto)
19 April 2024: Adina Camelia Bleotu presented a talk at UC Davis titled Insights into Disjunction from Child Romanian: On a Possible Conjunctive Default of Disjunction and the Role of Incompatible Disjuncts in Acquisition, co-authored by Adina Camelia Bleotu (University of Bucharest), Andreea Nicolae (ZAS Berlin), Gabriela Bîlbîie (University of Bucharest), Mara Panaitescu (University of Bucharest), Anton Benz (ZAS Berlin), and Lyn Tieu (University of Toronto).
18 October 2024: Adina Camelia Bleotu presented a talk titled On the sources of strong interpretations in children. Insights from plain and modal disjunctive statements, co-authored by Adina Camelia Bleotu (University of Bucharest), Mara Panaitescu (University of Bucharest), Alexandre Cremers (Vilnius University), Andreea Nicolae (ZAS Berlin), Anton Benz (ZAS Berlin), Gabriela Bîlbîie (University of Bucharest) & Lyn Tieu (University of Toronto). link .
Workshops
18 November 2023: Logical Operators: Theory and Acquisition, part of the 8th edition of The Bucharest Colloquium of Language Acquisition (BUCLA 2023), hybrid workshop organized by the University of Bucharest (Adina Camelia Bleotu, Mara Panaitescu, Gabi Bîlbîie) and ZAS Berlin (Andreea Nicolae). link.
15 May 2024: Free Choice Inferences: Theoretical and Experimental Approaches, online workshop organized by the University of Bucharest (Adina Camelia Bleotu, Mara Panaitescu, Gabi Bîlbîie), ZAS Berlin (Anton Benz, Andreea Nicolae), University of Toronto (Lyn Tieu), link.
24-25 October 2024: Puzzles of Agreement: Syntactic, Semantic and Psycholinguistic Perspectives, online workshop organized by the University of Bucharest (Adina Camelia Bleotu, Gabi Bîlbîie), ZAS Berlin (Anton Benz, Andreea Nicolae), University of Toronto (Lyn Tieu), and UMass Amherst (Tom Roeper, Deborah Foucault, Faruk Akkuş, link