Anamaria Bentea
List of John Benjamins publications in which Anamaria Bentea is involved.
Articles
2026 Bilingualism, working memory, and relative clause comprehension in children Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 16:2, pp. 171–202 | Article
Bilingualism has sometimes been associated with cognitive boosts, particularly in working memory (WM). However, it remains unclear whether such benefits extend to the comprehension of syntactically complex structures. We investigated this through a gamified character-selection task assessing… read more
2025 Chapter 1. Featural mismatches and the comprehension of relative clauses in French: Comparing gender and number The Ziggurat of Grammar: In honor of Ur Shlonsky, Baunaz, Lena, Giuliano Bocci and Andrew Nevins (eds.), pp. 2–19 | Chapter
Children’s difficulties with object relatives, linked to intervention effects (Friedmann et al. 2009), can be modulated by finer-grained featural mismatches between the moved object and the embedded subject. We investigated the effect of gender and number featural mismatches and the role of… read more
2013 A’-dependencies in French: A study in L1 acquisition Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2011: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Utrecht 2011, Baauw, Sergio, Frank Drijkoningen, Luisa Meroni and Manuela Pinto (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article
French has several optional strategies for the formation of wh-interrogatives, whereas relative clauses (RCs) do not display this optionality. In a comprehension study with French-speaking children aged 5 to 8, we show that two factors interact in the processing of object A’-dependencies in child… read more