PUBLICATIONS
Submitted/In progress
Ghaemi, T. & Bentea, A. (under review) Comprehension of Subject and Object Who- and Which-questions in Monolingual and Bilingual Farsi-speaking Adults
Bentea, A. (under review) Intervention effects and number mismatch in A'-dependencies in Romanian: An online processing investigation
Bentea, A., Belletti, A., Rizzi, L. & Durrleman, S. (under review) Featural mismatches and the comprehension of relative clauses in French: Comparing gender and number
Solaimani, E., Chondrogianni, V., Bentea, A., Delage, H., Wolfer, P., Baumeister, F., Durrleman, S. (under review) Bilingualism, Working Memory, and Relative Clause Comprehension in Children
Solaimani, E., Wolfer, P., Baumeister, F., Chondrogianni, V., Bentea, A., Durrleman, S. (under review) Brain Boosters: How Bilingualism and Working Memory Enhance Children's Comprehension of which-questions
Bentea, A. (under review) Development of complex syntax in the heritage language of bilingual children: A case study with Romanian-German speaking children in Germany
Bentea, A. (under review) Morphosyntactic Cues in Bilingual Acquisition: A Comprehension Study with L1 Romanian-L2 German Bilinguals
Bentea, A. & Soare, E. (in progress) Romanian in the Bilingual World. Introduction to Special Issue on The Acquisition of Heritage Romanian in Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
Bentea, A. & Marinis, T. (in progress) Cross-linguistic influence in the production of multiple wh-questions in Romanian-English bilinguals
Bentea, A. & Marinis, T. (in progress) Syntactic Processing in Child Heritage Language Bilinguals: An Eye-tracking Study of Which-questions in Romanian
Durrleman, S., Shlonsky, U. & Bentea, A. (in progress) The comprehension of clefts in French: what's Person got to do with it?
2024
Bentea, A. (2024) An Investigation into the Production of Which-Questions by Romanian-speaking children and adults. In Anca Sevcenco, Irina Stoica, Ioana Stoicescu et al. (Eds.) Exploring linguistic landscapes : a festschrift for Larisa Avram and Andrei Avram (pp 333-351). Editura Universității din București. [preprint]
Gordon-Dana, C., Bentea, A. & Durrleman, S. (2024) Bilingualism Effects On Theory Of Mind In Children With DLD. In Hyatt Abdullah, Ali AlThagafi and Jupiter Ray (eds.), Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 223-234), Cascadilla Press. [publication]
2023
Bentea, A., Shlonsky, U. & Durrleman, S. (2023) Towards a hierarchy of featural mismatch effects in the acquisition of A’-dependencies: A comprehension study with French children. In C. Brown et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 47th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 50–61). Cascadilla Press. [publication]
2022
Bentea, A. & Marinis, T. (2022) Multiple wh-interrogatives in child heritage Romanian: On-line Comprehension and Production, Frontiers in Psychology, Vol. 13 [publication]
Bentea, A. & Durrlemann, S. (2022) Person Matters: Relative Clauses in the Acquisition of French, Isogloss 8(5)/2. [publication]
Durrlemann, S., Bentea, A., Prisecaru, A., Thommen, E., & Delage, H. (2022) Training Syntax to Enhance Theory of Mind in Children with ASD. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. [publication]
2021
Durrleman, S. & Bentea, A. (2021) Locality in the acquisition of object A’-dependencies: insights from French. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 6 (1). [publication]
Bentea, A. & Marinis, T. (2021) Not all wh-dependencies are created equal: processing of multiple wh-questions in Romanian children and adults. Applied Psycholinguistics, 42(4), 825-864. [publication]
Bentea, A. & Durrleman, S. (2021) Number Mismatch and Intervention in the Absence of Lexical Restriction: An Investigation of "Celui/Celle" Headed Relatives in French. In D. Dionne & L.-A. Vidal Covas (Eds.), Proceedings of the 45th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 40–51). Cascadilla Press. [publication]
2019
Bentea, A. & Durrleman S. (2019) Topichood and the comprehension of relative clauses in French. In M. M. Brown & B. Dailey (Eds.), Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 57–68). Cascadilla Press. [publication]
2018
Bentea, A. & Durrleman S. (2018) Not committing has its advantages: Facilitating children’s comprehension of object filler-gap dependencies is one of them. Journal of Child Language, 45(1), 35-71. [publication]
2017
Bentea A. (2017) Comprehension of wh-questions in child Romanian: A case about case and lexical restriction. in J. Choi, H. Demirdache, O. Lungu & L. Voeltzel (Eds.), Language Acquisition and Development: Proceedings of GALA 2015 (pp. 1-19). Newcastle upon Tyne: CSP. [publication]
Bentea, A. & Durrleman S. (2017) Now you hear it, now you don’t: Number mismatch in the comprehension of relative clauses in French. In M. LaMendola & J. Scott (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 60–73). Cascadilla Press. [publication]
Baunaz, L., Bentea, A., & Blochowiak, J. (Eds.) (2011) GG@G (Generative Grammar in Geneva), Volume 7, Université de Genève. [volume link]
Bentea, A. (2010). Multiple WH-Questions: A cross-linguistic perspective. in P. Guijarro-Fuentes & L. Domínguez (Eds.), New Directions in Language Acquisition: Romance Languages in the Generative Perspective (pp. 281-303). Newcastle upon Tyne: CSP. [preprint]
Bentea, A. (2010) On restrictive relatives in Romanian: Towards a head-raising analysis. GG@G (Generative Grammar in Geneva), Volume 6, T. Ihsane & C. Laenzlinger (Eds.), 163-191. [publication]
2016
Bentea, A., Durrleman S., & Rizzi, L. (2016) Refining intervention: The acquisition of featural relations in object A-bar dependencies. Lingua, 169, pp. 21-41. [publication]
Durrleman S., Bentea A., & Guasti M.-T. (2016) Out of Sight, Not out of Mind: Unexpressed Features Impact Children’s Comprehension of Relative Clauses . Proceedings of the 40th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development [publication]
Bentea, A. (2016) The comprehension of subject and direct object wh-questions in child Romanian. GG@G (Generative Grammar in Geneva), Volume 9, A. Tigău (Ed.), 99-119. [publication]
Bentea, A. (2016) Intervention effects in language acquisition: The comprehension of A-bar dependencies in French and Romanian. Doctoral dissertation. Geneva: University of Geneva [pdf thesis]
2014
Bentea, A. & Durrleman S. (2014) To Move or Not To Move. The Role of Optionality in the Acquisition of A’-dependencies in French. in J. Costa, A. Fiéis, M. João Freitas, M. Lobo and A. L. Santos (Eds.), New Directions in the Acquisition of Romance Languages: Selected Proceedings of the Romance Turn V (pp. 78-101). Newcastle upon Tyne: CSP. [preprint]
Bentea, A. & Durrleman, S. (2014) Children Don’t Like Restrictions: Evidence from the Acquisition of Object A’-dependencies in French. In W. Orman & M. J. Valleau (Eds.), Proceedings Supplement of the 38th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Cascadilla Press. [publication]
2013
Bentea, A. & Durrleman, S. (2013) A’-dependencies in French: A Study in L1 Acquisition. in S. Baauw, F. A.C. Drijkoningen, L. Meroni, and M. Pinto (Eds). Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2011. Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ Utrecht 2011 (pp. 1-16). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [preprint]
Bentea, A. (2012) Subject vs object relatives: What can Romanian children tell us about their acquisition? Revue Roumaine de Linguistique, LVII (2), L. Avram (Ed.), 203-218. [publication]
Bentea, A. (2012) Does “Case” Matter in the Acquisition of Relative Clauses in Romanian? In A. K. Biller, E. Y. Chung, & A. E. Kimball (Eds.), Proceedings Supplement of the 36th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Cascadilla Press. [publication]