Presentations

27-29 April 2022 (Forthcoming) Accepted with an oral presentation at GLOW 45, Queen Mary University of London: "Voice Alternation with SE figure reflexives in Romanian: Evidence from a semi-artificial denominal paradigm" (joint work with Rodica Ivan)

24-26 March 2022: (Forthcoming) Accepted with a poster at Head Sentence Processing Conference, UC Santa Cruz: "Children can grasp becoming like a cherry so why not cherrying?"

11-12 February 2021: organized the joint UniBuc-UMass online workshop "Jabberwocky Words in Linguistics" together with Deborah Foucault (UMass Amherst)-see more info here below                                               a) https://www.umass.edu/languageacquisition/jabberwocky-words-linguistics-workshop-feb-11-12-umass-unibuc                                                                                                                                                                                     b) https://lls.unibuc.ro/2022/jabberwocky-words-in-linguistics/

17 November 2021: gave a talk entitled “Denominal Verbs and Creativity in Child Romanian” at the 7th Bucharest Colloquium of Language Acquisition (BUCLA)

17 September 2021: gave a talk entitled “Voice Alternation in SE figure reflexives in Romanian: Evidence from a semi-artificial paradigm” at the Syntax Workshop (UMass Amherst) together with Rodica Ivan (Toronto), in Amherst, Massachusetts

17 September 2021: gave a talk entitled “Children's literal interpretation of novel denominal verbs (‘to cherry’/’to fox’) is a consequence of structural simplicity, not a matter of cognitive difficulty with figurative meanings” at (LARC) Language Acquisition Research Center, UMass Amherst

30 August-3 September2021: gave a talk entitled “Denominal verbs and creativity: An experimental approach” at SLE 2021(Athens, online)

3-5 June 2021: gave a talk with Rodica Ivan (Toronto) on “Probing into SE figure reflexives through a semi-artificial paradigm” at AICED (Annual International Conference of the English Department) 2021 (University of Bucharest, Bucharest, online)

10 April 2021: gave a talk entitled “Denominals and creativity in children and adults” at the Language Acquisition Workshop of New England (LAWNE)

8-11 April 2021: presented a poster entitled “What’s the Meaning of a Nominal Root? Insights from Experiments into Denominals and Similarity” together with Jelke Bloem (University of Amsterdam) at WCCFL 39, Arizona (online)