The 2nd BUCHAREST COLLOQUIUM OF

LANGUAGE ACQUISITION - BUCLA 2

6-7 December 2013

Friday, 6 December 2013

Sala de Consiliu, 7-13 Pitar Moş Str.

9.45-10.00 Opening

10.00-11.00 KEYNOTE SPEAKER The acquisition of phonology by Romanian-speaking

children Elena Buja Transilvania University of Braşov

11.00 -11.40

Issues in the acquisition of phonology by a Romanian-English bilingual child

Andrei A. Avram University of Bucharest

11.40 - 12.10 Coffee-tea break

12.10 -

12.50

Wh-question comprehension in child Romanian

Anca Sevcenco University of Bucharest

12.50 - 13.30

Asymmetries in the acquisition of wh-questions: The view from child Romanian

Cristina Măniţă University of Bucharest

13.30 -

14.10

Finiteness and early subjects in child Russian

Laura Ciobanu University of Bucharest

14.10 - 15.30 Lunch break

15.30 –

16.10

The acquisition of subjects in child second

and third language learning Barbu Revencu University of Bucharest

16.10 –

16.50

Switching in a Romanian-Hungarian

bilingual context Veronica Tomescu University of Bucharest

16.50 – 17.30

Resumptive pronouns in object relative clauses in L2 English: UG access or transfer?

Adela Simoiu University of Bucharest

Saturday, 7 December 2013 Sala de Consiliu, 7-13 Pitar Moş Str.

10.00-

11.00

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Nativism in linguistics and in other sciences of the mind

Daniela Isac Concordia University 11.00-11.40

Knowledge of tense semantics in early child Romanian

Ioana Stoicescu University of Bucharest

11.40-12.10 Coffee-tea break

12.10 -

12.50

Cross-linguistic interference in the acquisition of

Accusative clitics by Romanian-Hungarian bilinguals

Veronica Tomescu & Larisa Avram University of Bucharest

12.50-13.30

Characteristics of Romanian as acquired by young bilingual immigrants in Spain

Paul Buzilă University of Bucharest

13.30 -14.10

Locative inversion in L2 English Irina Iancu University of Bucharest

14.10- 15.30 Lunch break

15.30-16.10

Differential object marking in L2 Persian: access to universal semantic features?

Cristina Ciovârnache & Larisa Avram University of Bucharest

16.10 – 16.50

Inability to learn a foreign language? A case study of an adult learning L2 - some ideas for

future research

Amelia Molea, Military Technical Academy 16.50- 17.00 Closing remarks