Oana LUNGU

Psycholinguistique, acquisition du langage
Sémantique, Syntaxe
 

temps, aspect, connecteurs logiques (disjonction, négation), modalité, subordination

depuis 12/22 : Ingénieure de recherche CNRS, UMR 6310 Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes
03/21 - 11/22 : Enseignante-chercheuse contractuelle et co-directrice pédagogique, Orthophonie Nantes
09/20 - 01/21 - Chargée d'aide au pilotage de la recherche, Direction de la Recherche, des Parténariats et de l'Innovation, Université de Nantes
2018 - 2019 - Ingénieure de recherche, UMR 6310 Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes
2016 - 2017 - ATER, Département d'Études Anglaises, Université de Nantes
2013 - 2015 - Chercheuse post-doctorat, CLUNL, Universidade Nova de Lisboa


Publications (sélection)

O. Lungu, A. Dieuleveut, V. Hacquard, and A. Cournane (2026). Children's Understanding of Necessity Modals: Evidence from French, in R. Hill, X. Jiang, D. Worapipat, and A. Yedetore (eds), BUCLD 50 Proceedings. Cascadilla Press. 
E. Pagliarini, Oana Lungu, A. van Hout, S. Balazs, L. Pinter, M.T. Guasti and S. Crain (2022). How Children Interpret Disjunction under Negation in Dutch, French, Hungarian and Italian : A Cross-Linguistic Comparison. Language Learning and Development. DOI : 10.1080/15475441.2021.1941966
O. Lungu, A. Fălăuş and F. Panzeri (2021). Disjunction in Negative Contexts : A Cross-Linguistic Experimental Study. Journal of Semantics. DOI : https ://doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffab002
O. Lungu (2018). Temporal Interpretations of Definite NPs : The View from European Portuguese Child Language. Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics 25(4), 418-437. DOI : 10.1080/10489223.2017.1391267
O. Lungu and H. Demirdache (2015). Zero-Present under Past in Child French : Evidence from the Future, in D. Ayoun (ed), The Acquisition of the Present, 21–56. Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins. ISBN 9789027212269
O. Lungu (2015). Two Analyses for Simultaneous Construals of Relative Clauses in L1 French, in C. Hamann & E. Ruigendijk (eds), Language Acquisition and Development : Proceedings of GALA 2013, 259–281. Newcastle Upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN : 1-4438-7553-8
O. Lungu (2011). Temporal Construals of Relative Clauses, in C. Abrego-Collier, A. Kang, M. Martinovic & Chieu Nguyen (eds), CLS 47 Proceedings, 121–135. Chicago : CLS Publishers.
O. Percus and O. Lungu (2011). Simultaneous Analyses for Simultaneous Present, in N. Li & D. Lutz (eds), SALT 20 Proceedings, 735–755.
H. Demirdache and O. Lungu (2010). Zero-Time Arguments in French Child Language, in M. Duguine, S. Huidobro & N. Madariaga (eds), Linguistik Aktuell/ Linguistics Today, Argument Structure and Syntactic Relations, 305–323. Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins.
H. Demirdache and O. Lungu (2009). Sequence of Tense in (French) Child Language, in J. van Craenenbroeck & J. Rooryck (eds), Linguistic Variation Yearbook 8, 101–131. Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins. DOI : https ://doi.org/10.1075/livy.8.04dem
O. Lungu (2008). Tense in Embedded Contexts : the case of Romanian, in A. Cornilescu (ed), Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics X (1), 21-37. http ://bwpl.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/BWPl-2008-1-Lungu.pdf


Communications (sélection) 

O. Lungu, A. Dieuleveut,  E. Swanson, A. Cournane and V. Hacquard (upcoming). Understanding necessity modals: salience helps but children still struggle, BUCLD 51, Boston University, Boston, November 5-8, 2026
F. Wang, J. Culbertson, O. Lungu and M. Maldonado (upcoming). Developmental evidence for learning bias for person systems, BUCLD 51, Boston University, Boston, November 5-8, 2026
O. Lungu, A. Dieuleveut,  A. Cournane and V. Hacquard (upcoming). Do children distinguish necessity from possibility? Evidence from French and English, OASIS 6, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, October 13-16, 2026.
A. Dieuleveut, O. Lungu, A. Cournane and V. Hacquard (2026). Untangling Possibility from Necessity in Child Language: Comparing French and English. Présentation orale dans le cadre du symposium "The Interplay of Language and Cognition in the Development of Logical Reasoning" organisé par la Cognitive Development Society. Montréal, April 9-11.
O.Lungu, A. Dieuleveut, V. Hacquard and A. Cournane (2025). Children’s Understanding of Necessity Modals: Evidence from French. BUCLD 50. Boston University, Boston, MA, 6–9 nov.
O. Lungu, A. Dieuleveut, A. Cournane and V. Hacquard (2025). Children’s Understanding of Modal Force: Evidence from French. GALA 17. Université de Tours, 11-13 sept.
S. Moracchini, O. Lungu and H. Demirdache. (2025). Children’s Acquisition of Negation and Adjective Scales. GALA 17. Université de Tours, 11-13 sept. (poster).
O. Lungu, A. van Hout and F. Foppolo (2023). The Incremental Processing of Grammatical Aspect in French: A Visual-World Study, XPrag X, Paris-Cité Université/CNRS, Paris, 20-22 sept (poster). 
O. Lungu, A. Fălăuş and F. Panzeri (2019). A cross-linguistic investigation of the positive polarity status of disjunction, CSSP, CNRS & Université Paris 8, Paris, 2–4 octobre (alternate-poster).
O. Lungu and A. Fălăuş (2018). An experimental investigation of disjunction in negative contexts: new insights from French and Romanian. Ambigo: Workshop on Ambiguity – Theory, Development, and Processing. 4-6 juillet, University of Göttingen.
E. Pagliarini, M.T. Guasti,  O. Lungu, A. van Hout and S. Crain. (2017). The Acquisition of Negated Disjunction : Evidence from Italian, French and Dutch, BUCLD 42, Boston University, Boston, 3–5 novembre. 
E. Pagliarini, O. Lungu, M.T. Guasti, A. van Hout and S. Crain (2017). The Acquisition of Negated Disjunction : Evidence from Italian, French and Dutch, GALA 13, Université des Iles Baléares, Palma de Majorque, 7–9 septembre.
E. Pagliarini, O. Lungu, M.T. Guasti, A. van Hout and S. Crain (2017). Simple Disjunction in Negative Contexts : Evidence from L1 Italian, French and Dutch, Workshop on Implicatures - Domain Restriction/Domain Widening : Theoretical and Experimental Approaches (IoD 2017), Université Catholique Pázmány Péter, Budapest, 19–20 juin.