Refereed presentations

2026

1. 8-11 January 2026: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Anton Benz, Deborah Foucault, Lyn Tieu & Tom Roeper. “The challenges of conditional disjunction: Evidence from child Romanian.” Talk to be presented at the 2026 LSA Annual Meeting, New Orleans. 

2. 8-11 January 2026: Anna Knall, Deborah Foucault & Adina Camelia Bleotu.  "Anaphora Resolution of Romanian One in Early Child Language: The Role of Morphosyntactic Gender". Talk to be presented at the 2026 LSA Annual Meeting, New Orleans. 

2025

3. 4 December 2025: Bleotu, Adina Camelia & Tom Roeper. "Are null objects of grooming verbs reflexive? Insights from child and adult Romanian". Talk to be presented at Going Romance 2025, Ca'Foscari University, Venice

4. 4 December 2025: Knall, Anna, Deborah Foucault & Adina Camelia Bleotu,. "Deictic and Anaphoric NP Reconstruction in Child Romanian. The Role of Gender in Visual Contexts". Talk to be presented at Workshop on Gender in Romance Languages, Going Romance 2025, Ca'Foscari University, Venice

5. 21 November 2025: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. "Visual priming and the internal structure of denominals". Talk presented at the Workshop on Lexical Representations and Phonological Representations, The International Conference of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest. 

6.  15 November 2025: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Monica Alexandrina Irimia & Tom Roeper. "On the acquisition of null objects and reflexivity by Romanian 4-year-olds". Talk presented at the Pronouns in Acquisition Workshop, University of Bucharest

7. 15 November 2025: Gerard, Juliana, Dana McDaniel & Adina Camelia Bleotu. “PRO/pro by age 4: Non-finite adjuncts in Romanian vs. English .” Talk presented at the Pronouns in Acquisition Workshop, University of Bucharest

8. 6–9 November 2025: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Anton Benz, Deborah Foucault, Lyn Tieu & Tom Roeper. “Acquiring conditional disjunction: Romanian five-year-olds’ struggle with implicit ‘if not’.” Poster presented at the 50th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 50), Boston University.

9. 6–9 November 2025: Gerard, Juliana, Dana McDaniel & Adina Camelia Bleotu. “In control or not? Acquisition of non-finite adjunct clauses in Romanian vs. English.” Talk presented at the 50th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 50), Boston University.

10. 23-24 October 2025: Bleotu, Adina Camelia & Monica Alexandrina Irimia. Laura washes every day: herself or the dishes? Null objects and grooming verbs in English and Romanian. Talk presented at Null Objects from a Crosslinguistic and Developmental Perspective (NOCroDeP), University of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca.

11. 23-24 October 2025: Bleotu, Adina Camelia & Ekaterina Levina. Do referentiality and animacy affect null object and accusative clitic use in Romanian? Talk presented at Null Objects from a Crosslinguistic and Developmental Perspective (NOCroDeP), University of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, October 23–24, 2025. 

12. 23–27 September 2025: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Lyn Tieu, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz & Andreea Nicolae. “Disjunction across polarities: Scope vs. strengthening in children’s interpretations of negative disjunctive sentences.” Talk presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 30, Goethe University Frankfurt.

13. 17–19 September 2025: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Andreea Nicolae, Anton Benz & Lyn Tieu. “Conjunction as a basic meaning of disjunction: Evidence from Romanian 3-year-olds.” Talk presented at the 11th Experimental Pragmatics Conference (XPRAG 2025), University of Cambridge.

14. 17–19 September 2025: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Deborah Foucault, Thomas Roeper, Lyn Tieu & Anton Benz. “Insights into the acquisition of conditional disjunction.” Poster (alternate oral presentation) presented at the 11th Experimental Pragmatics Conference (XPRAG 2025), University of Cambridge.

15. 11-13 September 2025: Bleotu, Adina Camelia & Ekaterina Levina. "The role of animacy and contrast in overt personal pronoun subjects in child Romanian". Talk presented at 17th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition conference, Tours 

16. 4–6 September 2025: Gerard, Juliana & Adina Camelia Bleotu. “(Dis)agreement across languages: Cues to control in English and Romanian.” Poster presented at the 31st Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP 2025), Charles University, Prague, Czechia.

17. 26-29 August 2025: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, & Ekaterina Levina. "When contrast overrides animacy: Overt personal pronouns as subjects in anaphoric contexts in adult Romanian". Talk presented at 58th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2025), Bordeaux

18. 17-19 July 2025: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Lyn Tieu, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz & Andreea Nicolae. “Disjunction across polarities: Scope vs. strengthening in children’s interpretations of negative disjunctive sentences.” Talk presented at XPRAG Fest (‘Experiments on the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface’), ZAS, Berlin.

19. 29-31 May 2025: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, & Ekaterina Levina. "Overt personal pronoun subjects in child Romanian: Insights into animacy and contrast". Talk presented at the 26th Annual International Conference of the English Department, University of Bucharest, Bucharest.

20. 29-30 May 2025: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, & Ekaterina Levina. "The role of animacy and number in anaphoric personal pronoun subjects. Experimental insights from child and adult Romanian". Poster presented at Mismatches in anaphoric relations (RED 2025), Graz

21. 7-9 May 2025: Bleotu, Adina Camelia & Ekaterina Levina. "Contrast over animacy? Overt personal pronoun subject anaphora in adult Romanian". Poster presented at Colloquium di Grammatica Generativa 34, Madrid. 

22. 27-29 March 2025: Gerard, Juliana & Adina Camelia Bleotu. "Control issues: A cross-linguistic perspective on syntactic and discourse dependencies". Poster presented at Human Sentence Processing 2025, University of Maryland. 

23. 24 March 2025: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Anton Benz & Lyn Tieu.  “Agreement with singular disjunction in adult and child language: A grammatical lacuna or a meaning-driven process?” Talk presented at the GLOW 47 Workshop on Universal Paradigmatic Gaps, Göttingen.

24. 13-14 February 2025: Bleotu, Adina Camelia & Ekaterina Levina."Animacy and number in subject anaphora. Experimental evidence from child and adult Romanian." Talk presented at the Pre-and Protomorphology Workshop, Vienna 

25. 9-12 January 2025: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Deborah Foucault, and Tom Roeper. "Romanian-English bilingual adults are more recursive with adjectives in L1 than in L2". Talk presented at 2025 Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting.

   2024

26. 18-20 December 2024: Bleotu, Adina Camelia Bleotu, Mara Panaitescu (joint first authors), Alexandre Cremers Andreea Nicolae, Anton Benz, Gabriela Bîlbîie, and Lyn Tieu. “More than one way to free choice: A view from child Romanian.” Talk presented at the 2024 Amsterdam Colloquium

27.  4-6 December 2024: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz, and Lyn Tieu. “Agreement with disjunction: Evidence for semantic-pragmatic and syntactic strategies.” Talk presented at Going Romance 2024, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal.

28.  7-10 November 2024: Foucault, Deborah, Tom Roeper, and Adina Camelia Bleotu. Romanian-English bilingual adults are more recursive with adjectives in L1 than in L2. Poster presented at The 49th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 49), University of Boston.

29.  26-27 September 2024: Panaitescu, Mara, Lyn Tieu, Andreea Nicolae, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Anton Benz, and Adina Camelia Bleotu. “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, Italy.

30.  26-27 September 2024: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Andreea Nicolae, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz, and 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, Italy.

31.  16-20 September 2024: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Andreea Cristina Nicolae, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz, and Lyn Tieu. “The role of incompatible disjuncts in the acquisition of disjunction: Insights from studies involving actual and missing logical words in child Romanian”. Talk presented at the 29th Sinn und Bedeutung, Noto, Italy.

32. 12-14 September 2024: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Deborah Foucault, and Tom Roeper. “Can one in The bear wants a small green apple and a big one refer to a yellow apple? Anaphoric reconstruction is sensitive to nesting in adults but not in children”. Talk presented at the 16th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA 16), Lisbon, Portugal.

33. 12-14 June 2024: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Andreea Nicolae, Mara Panaitescu, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Anton Benz, and Lyn Tieu. 2024. “A nonce investigation of a possible conjunctive default for disjunction.” Poster presented at Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM3), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

34.  12-14 June 2024: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz, Andreea Nicolae, Gabriela Bîlbîie, and Lyn Tieu. “Coloring disjunction in child Romanian.” Poster presented at Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM3), University of Pennsylvania.

35. 12-14 June 2024: Pratley, Breanna, Jed Sam Guevara, Adina Camelia Bleotu, Kyle Johnson, and Brian Dillon. “Both Principle B and Competition are necessary to explain disjoint reference effects”. Talk presented at Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM3), University of Pennsylvania.

36. 16-18 May 2024: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Lyn Tieu, Mara Panaitescu, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Anton Benz, and 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 (HSP 37), University of Michigan.

37. 9-11 May 2024: López Otero, Julio César and Adina Camelia Bleotu. DOM in Romanian and Spanish among Romanian-speaking L2 speakers of Spanish: evidence from semi-spontaneous production. Talk presented at the 54th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL),  Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

38. 12-14 April 2024: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Andreea Nicolae, Anton Benz, Alexandre Cremers, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu, and Lyn Tieu. 2024. “Does merely hearing and boost implicatures with disjunction or is relevance also needed?". Talk presented at the 42nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 42), UC Berkeley, Berkeley.

39. 22-23 February 2024: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Andreea Nicolae, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz, and 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.

40. 4-7 January 2024: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Deborah Foucault, and Tom Roeper, “The fox wants a big red apple and a yellow one. Romanian insights into anaphoric reconstruction in children”. Poster presented at 2024 Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting.

41. 4-7 January 2024: Foucault, Deborah, Adina Camelia Bleotu, Usha Lakshmanan & Tom Roeper, “Development of small big ideas through scaffolding story contexts: Evidence from set-subset recursive adjectives in child English”. Talk presented at 2024 Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting.

2023

42. 25 November 2023: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. Agreement with collective nouns in English and Romanian. A distributional approach”. Talk presented at the Partitivity Workshop Crosslinguistic perspectives on partitivity and related phenomena, University of Bucharest.

43. 18 November 2023: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz, Andreea Nicolae, and Lyn Tieu. “Coloring disjunction in child Romanian”. Talk presented at the Workshop on Logical Operators: Theory and Acquisition, at the University of Bucharest

44.  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 Boston Conference on Language Development 48 (BUCLD 48), Boston.

45. 20 September 2023: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Rodica Ivan, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Monica Casa, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz, Lyn Tieu, and Andreea Nicolae. “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, Paris.

46. 5-8 September 2023: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Rodica Ivan, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Monica Casa, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz, Lyn Tieu, and Andreea Nicolae. “Multiple disjunctions in child Romanian: On the possible sources of conjunctive readings.” Talk presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 28, Ruhr University Bochum.

47.  5-8 September 2023: Bleotu, Adina Camelia and Anton Benz. “An investigation of the role of scalar diversity and question under discussion in rates of implicatures involving embedded scales.” Poster presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 28 (SuB 28), Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum.

48. 31 August-2 September 2023: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Rodica Ivan, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Monica Casa, Mara Panaitescu, Andreea Nicolae, Anton Benz, and Lyn Tieu “Investigating the effect of prosodic markedness on the interpretation of simple disjunction in Romanian.” Poster presented at 29th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP 29), San Sebastian, Spain.

49. 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 Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP 29), San Sebastian, Spain.

50.  26-29 July 2023: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Rodica Ivan, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Monica Casa, Mara Panaitescu, Andreea Nicolae, Anton Benz, and Lyn Tieu. “Not all complex disjunctions are alike: On inclusive and conjunctive interpretations in child Romanian.” Poster presented at the Cognitive Science Conference (CogSci) 2023, Sydney, Australia.

51. 26-30 June 2023: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Rodica Ivan, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Monica Casa, Mara Panaitescu, Andreea Nicolae, Anton Benz, and Lyn Tieu. “Insights into the acquisition of simple and complex disjunction markers in Romanian.” Talk presented at the 53rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 53), INALCO, Paris.

52. 9-10 June 2023: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu, Monica Casa, Anton Benz, Andreea Nicolae, and Lyn Tieu. “Disjunction in child Romanian and the Alternatives-based Approach”. Talk presented at the Annual International Conference of the English Department (AICED 24), University of Bucharest.

53. 12-14 May 2023: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Anton Benz and Gabriela Slǎvuțeanu “The role of intonation and context in lack of necessity meanings in child Romanian”. Talk presented at Semantics and Linguistics Theory 33 (SALT 33), Yale University, New Haven. Abstract. Slides.  

54. 28 April 2024: Julio César López Otero, and Adina Camelia Bleotu. "The semi-spontaneous production of DOM in Romanian and Spanish among Romanian-speaking L2 speakers of Spanish". Talk at Coloquio Internacional: El Rumano en Contacto con las Lenguas Iberorrománicas

55. 15 April 2023: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Rodica Ivan, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Monica Casa, Mara Panaitescu, Andreea Nicolae, Anton Benz, and Lyn Tieu. “Experimental insights into multiple disjunctions in child Romanian.” Talk presented at Language Acquisition Workshop in New England (LAWNE)

56. 11-15 April 2023: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, “A Meaning-First Approach to denominal verbs in child language: Compression is hard”. Poster presented at The 46th Generative Linguistics in the Old World Colloquium (GLOW 46), Vienna.

57. 9-11 March 2023: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Rodica Ivan, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Monica Casa, Mara Panaitescu, Andreea Nicolae, Anton Benz, and Lyn Tieu. “Experimental insights into markedness and the interpretation of disjunction in Romanian.” Poster presented at the 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP 36), University of Pittsburgh (online), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

2022

58. 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”. Talk at the workshop Advances in Generative Grammar, The Annual International Conference of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest, Bucharest.

59. 3-6 November 2022: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Hristo Kyuchukov,  and Tom Roeper. “Roma children are sensitive to the Recursive Set Subset Ordering Principle for adjectives.” Poster presented at the 47th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 47), Boston, Massachusetts.

60. 6-8 October 2022: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Anton Benz, and Gabriela Slǎvuțeanu. “Interdiction as a primary reading of negated deontic necessity in child Romanian”. Talk presented at Linguistic Evidence 2022 (Paris)

61. 22-23 September 2022: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Anton Benz and Nicole Gotzner. “Global Implicatures and QUD, An Experimental Investigation”. Talk presented at the 9th Experimental Pragmatics (XPRAG 2022), Pavia, Italy.

62. 22-23 September 2022: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Anton Benz and Gabriela Brozbǎ. “Deontic lack of necessity is interpreted as interdiction in child Romanian”. Poster presented at the 9th Experimental Pragmatics (XPRAG 2022), Pavia, Italy.

63. 22-24 September 2022: Bleotu, Adina Camelia and Tom Roeper. “Do children distinguish the green leaves and the yellow leaves from the green and yellow leaves?”. Talk presented at Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition 15 (GALA 15), Frankfurt, Germany.

64. 7-9 September 2022: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, “Show me the fox and the bear who drank lemonade: Relative clause ambiguity attachment with coordinated nouns”. Poster presented online at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing 2022 (AMLaP 2022), University of York, York.

65. 24-27 August 2022: Bleotu, Adina Camelia and Anton Benz. “Exploring indirect inferences with epistemic adverbs in child Romanian”. Talk presented at Societas Linguistica Europea 2022 (SLE 2022), Bucharest.

66. 4-6 August 2022: Bleotu, Adina Camelia and Tom Roeper.  “Children do not distinguish the green leaves and the yellow leaves from the green and yellow leaves”. Talk presented at GLOW Asia 13 (online).

67. 18-20 May 2022: Bleotu, Adina Camelia and Anton Benz. “You must worry! The interpretation of mustn’t varies with context and verb complement”. Poster presented online at Experiments in Linguistic Meaning 2 (ELM2), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

68. 26-29 April 2022: Bleotu, Adina Camelia and  Rodica Ivan. “Voice alternations in SE figure reflexives in Romanian: Evidence from a semi-artificial paradigm”. Talk presented at Generative Linguistics in the Old World Colloquium 45 (GLOW 45), Queen Mary University of London.

69. 22-24 April 2022: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Deborah Foucault and Tom Roeper. “Are long short leaves ‘leaves that are short that are long’? Yes! The Recursive Set-Subset Principle Orders Both Adjectives and Relative Clauses”. Talk presented online at Chicago Linguistic Society 58 (CLS 58). 

70. 22-24 April 2022:  Bleotu, Adina Camelia and  Rodica Ivan. “Voice alternations in SE figure reflexives in Romanian: Evidence from a semi-artificial paradigm”. Talk presented online at Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) 58.

71. 24-26 March 2022: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Anton Benz, and Roxana Mihaela Pǎtrunjel. “You must worry about mustn’t! Interpretation varies with context and verbal complement”. Poster presented online at Human Sentence Processing 2022, University of Santa Cruz.

72. 24-26 March 2022: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “Cherrying is a mystery compared to becoming like a cherry”. Poster presented online at Human Sentence Processing 2022, University of Santa Cruz.

73. 6-9 January 2022: Bleotu, Adina Camelia and Tom Roeper.  “Children are more sensitive to the Recursive Set-Subset Ordering Restriction than to Adjective Ordering Restrictions”. Poster presented at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting 2022.

74. 6-9 January 2022: Foucault, Deborah, Adina Camelia Bleotu, Usha Lakshmanan, Emma Merritt, Roehl Sybing, Tom Roeper. “Relative Gradable Adjective Recursion is More Challenging for Acquisition than Possessive Recursion”. Poster presented at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting 2022.

2021

75. 27-28 November 2021: Luciu, Ioana-Amalia and Adina Camelia Bleotu. "How Are Size, Age, Shape and Color Adjectives Ordered in English and Romanian? An Experimental Investigation." Talk presented at a Workshop on Modification (co-organized by UniBuc-UMass Amherst)

76. 27-28 November 2021: Truşcǎ, Daniela-Gabriela and Adina Camelia Bleotu. "An Experimental Investigation of the Ordering of Quality, Size and Color Adjectives in English and Romanian." Talk presented at a Workshop on Modification (co-organized by UniBuc-UMass Amherst)

77. 19-20 November 2021: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “Denominal Verbs and Creativity in Child Romanian”. Talk at the 7th Bucharest Colloquium of Language Acquisition (BUCLA)

78. 4-7 November 2021: Bleotu, Adina Camelia and Tom Roeper. “The Recursive Set-SubsetOrdering Restriction Overrides Adjective Ordering Restrictions: Evidence from Romanian 4-year-olds and adults”. Poster presented at Boston Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) 46.

79. 1-2 October 2021: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Anton Benz, and Nicole Gotzner. “Quantifiers embedded under epistemic adverbs lead to global but not local implicatures in Romanian child language: Insights from a shadow-play paradigm". Poster presented at SENSUS 2 (Constructing Meaning in Romance, UMass Amherst-online). Abstract 

80. 8-10 September 2021: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Anton Benz, and Nicole Gotzner. “Romanian 5-year-olds derive global but not local implicatures with quantifiers embedded under epistemic adverbs”. Talk presented online at Sinn und Bedeutung (Cologne, Germany).

81. 2-4 September 2021: Bleotu, Adina Camelia & Brian Dillon: “On the Multiple Mechanisms of Agreement Attraction: Evidence from Romanian”. Poster presented online at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing 2021 (AMLaP 2021), Paris (online).

82. 30 August-3 September 2021: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “Denominal verbs and creativity: An experimental approach”. Talk presented online at Societas Linguistica Europae (SLE) 2021, Athens (online).

83. 8-9 July 2021: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Anton Benz, and Nicole Gotzner. “Children derive some global implicatures, but almost no local implicatures with quantifiers embedded under epistemic adverbs: Evidence from a shadow-playing paradigm”. Poster presented online at XPRAG.It 2020 (21) (online)

84. 3-5 June 2021: Bleotu, Adina Camelia and Rodica Ivan. “Probing into SE figure reflexives through a semi-artificial paradigm”. Talk presented at the Annual International Conference of the English Department (AICED) 2021 (Bucharest, online)

85. 1-2 June 2021: Foucault, Deborah, Adina Camelia Bleotu, Usha Lakshmanan, Emma Merritt, Bing Bai, Tyler Poisson, Roehl Sybing, and Tom Roeper.“Relative Gradable Adjective Recursion is More Challenging for Acquisition than Possessive Recursion”. Long talk presented at the online workshop Recursion Across Languages. The Intricacies of Babel.

86. 1-2 June 2021: Bleotu, Adina Camelia and Tom Roeper. “The Recursive Set-Subset Ordering Restriction Overrides Adjective Ordering Restrictions. Evidence from Romanian 4-year-olds and Adults”. Short talk presented at the online workshop Recursion Across Languages. The Intricacies of Babel. 

87. 10 April 2021: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “Denominals and creativity in children and adults”. Talk presented online at the Language Acquisition Workshop of New England (LAWNE)

88. 8-11 April 2021: Bleotu, Adina Camelia and Jelke Bloem. “What’s the Meaning of a Nominal Root? Insights from Experiments into Denominals and Similarity”. Poster presented online at the 39th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 39), Arizona (online).

89. 5 March 2021: Bleotu, Adina Camelia and Brian Dillon. “Pronouns attract (much) less in number than in person”. Poster presented online at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing 2021 (online)

90. 5 January 2021: Bleotu, Adina Camelia and Tom Roeper. “Roll-Up is Too Complex for Romanian 5-Year-Olds. Evidence from Recursive Adjectives.”  Talk presented online at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) 2021 (online)

2020

91. 20-21 November 2020: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Anton Benz, and Nicole Gotzner. "Shadow-playing with Romanian 5-year-olds. Epistemic Adverbs Are a Kind of Magic!”. Talk presented online at The Session of Scientific Communications of the Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Bucharest, Bucharest (online)

92. 5-8 November 2020: Bleotu, Adina Camelia and Tom Roeper. “Small Big Flowers” or “Small and Big Flowers”? Simple is Better and Roll-Up is Too Complex for Romanian 5-Year-Olds. Poster presented online at The 45th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 45), Boston (online)

93. 26-27 September 2020: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Anton Benz, and Nicole Gotzner. “Where Truth and Optimality Part. An Experimental Approach to Implicatures with Epistemic Adverbs”. Talk presented online at Sensus, UMass (online)                                 

94. 26-27 September 2020: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Anton Benz, and Nicole Gotzner. “Shadow-playing with Romanian 5-year-olds to Shed Light on Epistemic Adverbs. It’s a Kind of Magic!”. Poster presented online at Sensus, UMass (online)

95. 16-18 September 2020: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Anton Benz, and Nicole Gotzner. “Where Truth and Optimality Part. Experiments on Implicatures with Epistemic Adverbs”. Poster presented online at Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM), UPenn (online)  

96. 16-18 September 2020: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Anton Benz, and Nicole Gotzner. “Shadow-playing with Romanian 5-year-olds. Epistemic Adverbs Are a Kind of Magic!”. Talk presented online at Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM), UPenn (online)         

97. 3-5 September 2020: Bleotu, Adina Camelia and Brian Dillon. “Do Bare Nouns Attract Less? Evidence from Agreement Attraction in Romanian”. Poster presented online at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing 2020 (AMLaP 2020), Potsdam (online)

98. 26 August-1 September 2020: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “The parrot next to the hamster (and) next to the bunny brings evidence for recursion from children”. Poster presented online at Societas Linguistica Europea 2020 (SLE 2020), Bucharest (online)

2019

99. 16 November 2019: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “Does every baby have a teddy? Yes, if the teddy is big. Quantifier spreading and size in child Romanian.”. Talk presented at Bucharest Colloquium on Language Acquisition 6 (BUCLA 6), Bucharest.

100. 24-27 October 2019: Bleotu, Adina Camelia & Jelke Bloem. “The distinction between true and pseudo denominals? It’s an illusion!”. Poster presented at North East Linguistic Society 50 (NELS 50), MIT, Boston.

101. 19-20 September 2019: Bleotu, Adina Camelia & Josh Reed. “Strict quantifier spreading readings vary with manner of presentation, but not with changes in colour or size”. Poster presented at XPrag.it 2019, Cagliari.   

102. 19-20 September 2019: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “What colouring can tell us about the acquisition of scalar epistemic adjectives in Child Romanian” at XPrag.it 2019, Cagliari

103.  21-24 August 2019: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “When a child’s certainty turns colourful. An experimental view upon the acquisition of epistemic adverbs in child Romanian”. Poster presented at SLE 2019, Leipzig

104. 19-21 June 2019: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “On the acquisition of scalar epistemic adverbs in child Romanian from a colouring perspective”. Poster presented at Experimental Pragmatics 2019, Edinburgh. Abstract. 

105. 7-9 June 2019: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “5-year-olds are Precise with Numbers: Evidence from Scalar Implicatures with Cardinals in Romanian Child Language”. Talk presented at AICED 21, Bucharest

106.   7-11 May 2019: Bleotu, Adina Camelia and Jelke Bloem. “Looks like you can crown your teddy with a rose garland, but can you paddle the boat with this spoon? The true behaviour of pseudo denominals and the pseudo behaviour of true denominals”. Poster presented at GLOW 42, Oslo

107. 3-4 January 2019: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “Romanian 5-year-olds surely know the meaning of poate ‘maybe’ but what about its pragmatics? On the acquisition of epistemic adverbs in child Romanian”. Talk presented at the  47th Cambridge Romance Linguistics Seminar, Trinity Hall, Cambridge

2018

108. 29 August- 1 September 2018: Bleotu, Adina Camelia and Jelke Bloem. “Insights from Likert scales into the pseudo behaviour of true denominals and the true behaviour of pseudo denominals”. Talk presented at SLE 2018, Tallinn, Estonia.

109. 29 August- 1 September 2018: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “Comparing degrees of ungrammaticality of Person and Number violations. Implications for the ordering of phi-features”. Poster presented at SLE 2018, Tallinn, Estonia.

110. 30 August- 1 September 2018: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “Deriving scalar implicatures with quantifiers by Romanian 7- and 9-year-olds” at The Romance Turn, Bucharest

111.  11-13 August 2018: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “Scalar implicatures with existential quantifiers in 5-year-olds. Insights from a coloring book task”. Talk presented at Workshop Scalar Implicatures: Formal and Experimental Exploration, Siena, Italy

112. 4-6 July 2018: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “Insights from a coloring book task into scalar implicatures with existential quantifiers in 5-year-olds”. Poster presented at Ambigo: Workshop on Ambiguity – Theory, Development, and Processing, Göttingen, Germany.

113. 4-6 July 2018: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “Deriving scalar implicatures with quantifiers by Romanian 7- and 9-year-olds”. Poster presented at Ambigo: Workshop on Ambiguity – Theory, Development, and Processing, Göttingen, Germany.

114. 7-9 June 2018: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “Does the*ABA hold for the verbal paradigm bare infinitive-simple past-past participle in English?”. Talk presented at Olinco 2018, Olomouc, The Czech Republic.

115. 7-9 June 2018: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “How are Number and Person ordered in the verbal and pronominal domain in Romanian?”. Talk presented at AICED 20, Bucharest

116.  29 May-1 June 2018: Bleotu, Adina Camelia and Jelke Bloem. “Can you star sentences with weird dots or butter bread with honey? The pseudo behaviour of true denominals and the true behaviour of pseudo denominals”. Talk presented at CGG 2018 (Colloquium di Grammatica Generativa),Tarragona, Spain.

117. 24-27 May 2018: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “Some books are made of chocolate. Context sensitivity in truth judgments of seemingly absurd sentences”. Poster presented at DuCog 2018 (Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science: Communication, Pragmatics and Theory of Mind), Dubrovnik

118. 18-21 April 2018:  Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “Scalar implicatures with quantifiers in 7- and 9-year-olds”. Poster presented at EMLAR XIV (Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition), Utrecht, Netherlands.

2017

119. 24-25 November 2017: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “Insights into the hierarchical ordering of Number and Person from ungrammaticality judgments”. Talk presented at “Variație ȋn romȃnă și ȋn limbile romanice”, Colocviul international al Departamentului de Lingvistică, 17th edition, Bucharest.

120. 11-13 September 2017: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “Upward Agree versus Downward Agree. The Case of Postverbal Subjects in Existential Sentences in Romanian”. Talk presented at SLE 2017 (50th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea), Zürich, Switzerland.

121. 22-25 June 2017: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “What does a cireși “to cherry” mean?”. Creative variation in the interpretation of denominal verbs. An experimental and structural approach”. Poster presented at 11th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting, Nicosia, Cyprus.

122. 8-10 June 2017: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “What ungrammaticality judgments can tell us about upward and downward agree”. Talk presented at AICED 19, Bucharest.

123. 2-3 May 2017: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. "The properties of the “(a) lua și X” (“take and X”) construction in Romanian. Evidence in favour of a more fine-grained distinction among pseudocoordinative structures”. Talk presented at Psecomac 2017 (Workshop on Pseudo-Coordination and Multiple Agreement), Venice, Italy.

2016

124. 1-2 December 2016:  Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “How wrong is your existential? Insight from existential sentences in Romanian”. Talk presented at the workshop Between EXISTENCE and LOCATION: Empirical, Formal and Typological Approaches to Existentials, Tübingen, Germany.

125. 2- 4 June 2016: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “Why GIVE cannot incorporate”. Talk presented at ACED 18,  Bucharest.

126.  13-16 April 2016: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “The issue of parasynthesis in Generative Grammar. A look at ȋn-verbs in Romanian”. Talk presented at CGG26 (the 26th Colloquium on Generative Grammar), Caceres, Spain.

127. 20-22 May 2016: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “Denominal verbs and Metaphor. A Look at Romanian. “Stop foxing around, verbs! You’re gonna get us all confused!”. Talk presented at Advances in Metaphor Studies, Genoa, Italy.

2015

128. 4 December 2015: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “The Acquisition of N-N Compounds in child Romanian”. Talk presented at BUCLA3 (The 3rd Bucharest Colloquium of Language Acquisition)

129. 18-19 September 2015: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “The Scope of Negative Prefixes in English and Romanian”. Poster presented at the Göttingen Summer School in Linguistics (Negation 2015, Spirit Summer School), University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.

130. 2-3 July 2015: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “Verbs Denoting Colour Processes in English and Romanian”. Talk presented at an International Conference Lisbon 2015, Lisbon, Portugal.

131. 4-6 June 2015: Bleotu, Adina Camelia.  “A Comparative Perspective on Various Accounts of Denominals in English and Romanian (Distributed Morphology, Phrasal Spell-Out and Spanning)”. Talk presented at ACED 17 (The 17th Annual Conference of the English Department), Bucharest.

132. 26-28 February 2015: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “A Spanning Account of Denominals in English and Romanian” at IGG 41 (Incontro di Grammatica Generativa 41), Perugia, Italy

133. 7-9 January 2015: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “A Phrasal Spell-Out Account of Denominals in English and Romanian”. Poster presented at ConSole XXIII, Paris, Diderot.

2014

134. 24-26 May 2014: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “Silent Adjectives. The Case of Complex Resultatives in the Locative Alternation”. Poster presented at GLOW in Asia X, at National Tsing Hua University.

2013

135. 29 November 2013-1 December 2013: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “Location, Locatum verbs and the Locative Alternation in Romanian and English”. Talk presented at ÖESKL, Vienna, Austria.

136. 7-12 July 2013: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “Instrument-Incorporating Verbs in English and Romanian” at the 6th Annual International Conference on Languages & Linguistics, Athens, Greece.

137. 6-8 June 2013: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “Remarks on Noun-Incorporating Verbs in English and Romanian”, Talk presented at the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium 2013, Olomouc, Czech Republic.

2012

138. 24-25 August 2012: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “I Incorporate Nouns of Various Structural Positions and Thematic Roles, Therefore I Am (The Verb)”. Talk presented at CECILS’ 2, at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary.

139.  31 May-2 June 2012: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “What Gets Incorporated and What Does Not”. Talk presented at the 14th Annual Conference of the English Department (ACED 14), at the University of Bucharest, Bucharest.

140. 21-23 March 2012: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “The Light (Verb) in the Stormy Weather”. Talk presented at the 22nd Colloquium on Generative Grammar (CGG 22), at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

2011

141. 25 November 2011: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “There is a Light That Sometimes Goes Out in Weather Verbs”. Talk presented at ÖSKL at University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.

142.  30-31 August 2011: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “Why Does IT Always Rain on Me? On Weather Verbs”. Talk presented at CECIL (Central European Conference in Linguistics for Graduate Students), Budapest, Hungary.

143. 3-4 June 2011: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “N1-of-N1 Constructions? Is There Such Thing?”. Talk presented at 13 ACED, Bucharest.

Invited talks

1. 11 November 2025: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. "Go to bed early or you’ll wake up tired! How do 5-year-olds handle conditional disjunction?" (based on joint work with Deborah Foucault, Anton Benz, Lyn Tieu & Tom Roeper). Invited talk at the Language Acquisition Lab, UMass Amherst.

2. 11 September 2025: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. "Conjunction as a default meaning of disjunction". Invited talk at the Workshop on Implicatures, part of the 15th International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation (TbILLC 2025), co-organized by Milica Denić, Sarah Zobel and Maria Aloni. https://www.marialoni.org//ImplicaturesWorkshop25.

3. 8 November 2024: Bleotu Adina Camelia, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu, Andreea Nicolae, Anton Benz, and Lyn Tieu. "Is OR the new AND? Compatibility of disjuncts matters in child language". Invited online talk at Ulster University. Link 

4. 18 October 2024: Bleotu Adina Camelia, Mara Panaitescu, Andreea Nicolae, Anton Benz, Alexandre Cremers, Gabriela Bîlbîie, and Lyn Tieu. "On the sources of strong interpretations in children. Insights from plain and modal disjunctive statements". Invited talk at ZAS Berlin. Link 

5. 29 September 2023: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Andreea Nicolae, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Anton Benz, Alexandre Cremers, Mara Panaitescu, Monica Casa, and Lyn Tieu. "On the role of conjunction and relevance from the acquisition of disjunction in child Romanian". Invited talk at the Cognitive Science of Language (CSoL) meeting, at the University of Toronto.

6. 29 September 2023: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Deborah Foucault, and Tom Roeper. “A peek at big small leaves and small pink flowers: Insights from recursion and cognition into adjective orders in child and adult language”. Invited talk at the French Department Meeting, at the University of Toronto.

7.  4 August 2023: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Andreea Nicolae, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Anton Benz, Mara Panaitescu, and Lyn Tieu. "Insights into scales and relevance from the acquisition of disjunction in child Romanian". Invited joint talk with Mara Panaitescu (University of Bucharest) at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.  Link.

8.   1 August 2023:  Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Andreea Nicolae, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Anton Benz, Mara Panaitescu, and Lyn Tieu. “How important is hearing and in understanding or? Insights into scales and relevance from the acquisition of disjunction in child Romanian”. Invited talk at MARCS Research Meeting, Western Sydney. Link.

9.  17 May 2023: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Rodica Ivan, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Monica Casa, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz, Lyn Tieu, and 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.

10. 17 May 2023: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Anton Benz and Gabriela Slǎvuțeanu. "The role of intonation and context in negated deontic modals in child Romanian". Invited talk at the Language Acquisition Research Center (LARC), UMass Amherst.

11. 21 February 2023: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Rodica Ivan, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Monica Casa, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz, Lyn Tieu, and Andreea Nicolae. “Why is disjunction interpreted as conjunction in child language? What makes children more adult-like?”. Invited talk at ZAS Berlin, Berlin.

12. 15 February 2023: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Rodica Ivan, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Monica Casa, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz, Lyn Tieu, and Andreea Nicolae. "On the conjunctive interpretation of disjunction. Evidence from child Romanian". Invited talk given by Gabriela Bîlbîie at the LingLunch seminar at Université Paris Cité.

13. 26 October 2022: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “Insights into the Recursive Set-Subset Constraint from Extraposition and Anaphora”. Invited (online) talk at Language Acquisition Research Center at UMass Amherst.

14.  28 September 2022: Bleotu, Adina Camelia and Anton Benz, “Is deontic lack of necessity understood as interdiction in child Romanian? Insights into the importance of prosodic cues and context for acquisition.” Staff talk at ZAS, Berlin.

15. 28 September 2022: Bleotu, Adina Camelia and Anton Benz. “Is deontic lack of necessity understood as interdiction in child Romanian? Insights into the importance of prosodic cues and context for acquisition.” Staff talk at ZAS, Berlin.

16. 17 April 2020: Bleotu, Adina Camelia and Brian Dillon. "Bare Nouns Attract Less than Full DPs. Evidence from Agreement Attraction in Romanian”. Talk at the Psycholinguistic Workshop at UMass Amherst.

17. 3 April 2020: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “A peek into recursion and coordination in Child Romanian, in a world inhabited by fat thin squirrels, tall short short giraffes, big and small flowers, and long and long short blades of grass”. Invited talk at LARC (Language Acquisition Research Center) at UMass Amherst 

18. 1 November 2019: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. "Evidence from Romanian 4- and 5-year-olds that the parrot next to the hamster next to the bunny is not the same as the parrot next to the hamster and next to the bunny". Invited talk at LARC (Language Acquisition Research Center) at UMass Amherst.

19. 24 September 2019: Bleotu, Adina Camelia. “The parrot next to the hamster next to the bunny is not the same as the parrot next to the hamster and next to the bunny. Evidence for the acquisition of recursion from Romanian 5-year-olds.” Invited talk at ZAS, Berlin.

20. 22 February 2019:  Roundtable on  modality with Alexandru Nicolae. “Modality in Romanian. Problems of Syntax and Pragmatics”. ICUB, Bucharest (Discussion moderated by Prof. Alexandra Cornilescu)

21. 8 November 2018: Bleotu Adina Camelia, “On Children’s Understanding of Apparently Absurd Statements”, “The Acquisition of NN Compounds in Romanian”, and “Are the existential quantifiers “unii” and “câṭiva” the same in child Romanian?”. Invited talk at the Language Acquisition Research Center (LARC) at UMass Amherst.

22. 24 October 2018: Bleotu Adina Camelia, “What playing with color can tell us about scalar implicatures with existential quantifiers and epistemic modal adverbs”. Invited talk at the Child Language Lab, NYU.

23. 8 November 2018: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, “On Children’s Understanding of Apparently Absurd Statements”, “The Acquisition of NN Compounds in Romanian”, and “Are the existential quantifiers “unii” and “câṭiva” the same in child Romanian?”. Invited talk at the Language Acquisition Research Center (LARC) at UMass Amherst

24. 19 October 2018: Bleotu, Adina Camelia and Jelke Bloem, “There’s more to denominals than meets the rule: the pseudo behaviour of true denominals and the true behaviour of pseudo denominals.” Talk at the Syntax Workshop, UMass Amherst

25. 18 October 2018: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, “A look at the acquisition of epistemic adverbs in child Romanian from a coloring perspective”. Invited talk at the Language Acquisition Research Center (LARC) at UMass Amherst.

26. 20 September 2018: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, “Experimental Investigation into the acquisition of quantifiers and modals in Romanian 5-year-olds (coloring tasks, erasing task a.o.)”. Invited talk at the Language Acquisition Research Center (LARC) at UMass Amherst

27. 20 March 2018: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, “Scalar implicatures with quantifiers in child Romanian”. Talk at ZAS Berlin within the institute’s internal workshop (FB14)

28. 22 February 2018: Bleotu, Adina Camelia, “Are children more logical than adults? Scalar implicatures with quantifiers in Romanian”.Talk at ICUB (Lunch seminar).