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               Books
2006 Inquiries in Linguistic Development: In honor of Lydia White. Edited by Roumyana Slabakova, Silvina A. Montrul and Philippe Prévost, Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Click here for more information
 
2005 Aspectual Inquiries, Edited by Paula Kempchinsky and Roumyana Slabakova, Springer (former Kluwer AP). Click here for more information
2001 Telicity in the Second Language, Language Acquisition and Language Disorders Series, Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Click for more information
               Journal articles and book chapters
2006 Is there a Critical Period for semantics?, Second Language Research. Click here to read a PDF version.
2006 Learnability in the L2 acquisition of semantics: A bidirectional study of a semantic parameter, Second Language Research. Click here to read a PDF version.
2006 A semantic parameter with a syntactic trigger in the L2 acquisition of Italian. In Inquiries in Linguistic Development: Studies in Honor of Lydia White. R. Slabakova, S. Montrul, and P. Prévost (Eds.), John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia
2006 Slabakova, R., Montrul, S. and Prévost, P. Introduction. In Inquiries in Linguistic Development: Studies in Honor of Lydia White. Roumyana Slabakova, Silvina Montrul, and Philippe Prévost (Eds.), John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia
2005 What is So Difficult about Telicity Marking in L2 Russian? Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 8 (1): 63-77 Click here to read a PDF version.
2005 Slabakova, R. and S. Montrul, L2 Acquisition at the Grammar-Discourse Interface: Aspectual Shifts in L2 Spanish. In Liceras, J., H. Zobl and H. Goodluck (Eds.), The Role of Features in Second Language Acquisition. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Click here to read a PDF version.
2005 Di Sciullo, A.-M. and R. Slabakova. Quantification and Aspect, in Perspectives on Aspect, Henk Verkuyl, Henriette de Swart, and Angeliek van Hout (Eds), Springer Series Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, Vol. 32 . Click here to read a PDF version.
2005 Kempchinsky, P. and R. Slabakova, Issues and interfaces in the study of aspect. In P. Kempchinsky and R. Slabakova (eds.), Aspectual Inquiries, pp. 1-18. Springer (former Kluwer AP)
2003 Slabakova, R. and S. Montrul. Genericity and Aspect in L2 Acquisition, Language Acquisition, 11 (3): 165-196 Click here to read a PDF version.
2003 Montrul, S. and R. Slabakova. Competence Similarities between Native and Near-Native Speakers: An Investigation of the Preterite/Imperfect Contrast in Spanish, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 25: 351-398. Click here to read a PDF version.
2003 Semantic Evidence for Functional Categories in Interlanguage Grammars. Second Language Research, 19(1): 42-75. Click here to read a PDF version.
2002 The Compounding Parameter in Second Language Acquisition, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, vol. 24. click to read a PDF version
2002 Recent Research on the Acquisition of Aspect: An Embarrassment of Riches?, Second Language Research, 2. click to read a PDF version
2002 Montrul, S. and R. Slabakova. The L2 Acquisition of Morphosyntactic and Semantic Properties of the Aspectual Tenses Preterite and Imperfect, In The Acquisition of Spanish Morphosyntax , Ana Teresa Perez-Leroux and Juana Liceras (eds), Kluwer Publishers, click here to read a pdf version
2002 Slabakova, R. and S. Montrul. Aspectual Tenses in Spanish L2 Acquisition: A UG Perspective, In Tense-Aspect Morphology in L2 Acquisition ,Yasuhiro Shirai and Rafael Salaberry (eds), John Benjamins, click here to read a pdf version
2001 Aspectual Constraints in the Mental Lexicon, Journal of Psycholinguistic Research , 30, 2, pp.197-217.
2000 Transfer Revisited: The L2 Acquisition of Telicity Marking in English by Spanish and Bulgarian Native Speakers, Linguistics 38, 4, pp. 739-770. click here to read a pdf version
1999 The Parameter of Aspect in Second Language Acquisition, Second Language Research , 15, 3, pp.283-317.
1998 L2 Acquisition of an Aspect Parameter, Journal of Slavic Linguistics , vol. 6, 1, pp. 171-105
1997 Bulgarian Aspect in Phrase Structure, Linguistics , vol. 35, 4, pp. 673-704
            Refereed Conference Proceedings and Working Papers
To appear Learnability in the L2A of semantics, GALANA Proceedings Click here to read a PDF version.
2005 L2 acquisition of a semantic parameter, Proceedings of the 7th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 7), ed. by Laurent Dekydtspotter et al., 219-225. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. Click here to read a PDF version
2005 Perfective Prefixes: What they are, what flavors they come in, and how they are acquired?, Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 13: The South Carolina Meeting, pp. 324-341, ed. by Steven Franks, Frank Y. Gladney and Mila Tasseva-Kurktchieva. Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan Slavic Publications.Click here to read a PDF version
2004 Effect of Perfective Prefixes on Object Interpretation: A Theoretical and Empirical Issue, Cahiers linguistiques d'Ottawa, 32, June, 122-142 Click here to read a PDF version
2003 Semantic and Morphological Reflexes of Functional Categories: The Case of Telicity Marking in L2 Russian, Proceedings of the Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA 6) conference, Cascadilla Press. Click here to read a PDF version.
2002 Object Interpretation in Perfective and Imperfective Sentences: What do Russian Native Speakers Think? Proceedings of the Perspectives on Aspect conference, UiL-OTS working papers, published here.
2002 Di Sciullo and Slabakova. Quantification and Aspect, Proceedings of the Perspectives on Aspect conference, UiL-OTS working papers, published here.
2002 Roumyana Slabakova and Silvina Montrul. On Aspectual Shifts in L2 Spanish. Proceedings of the Boston University Conference on Language Development XXVI , Cascadilla Press, click here to read a pdf version.
2001 Silvina Montrul and Roumyana Slabakova. Is Nativelike Competence Possible in Second Language Acquisition?Proceedings of the Boston University Conference on Language Development XXV , Cascadilla Press, click here to read a pdf version.
2001 Viewpoint Aspect in Bulgarian-English Interlanguage, Proceedings of the Boston University Conference on Language Development XXV , Cascadilla Press, click here to read a pdf version.
2000 Silvina Montrul and Roumyana Slabakova. Acquiring Semantic Properties of Preterite and Imperfect Tenses in L2 Spanish.Proceedings of the Boston University Conference on Language Development XXIV , Cascadilla Press, click here to read a pdf version.
1999 Evidence of Transfer: L2 Acquisition of Telicity in English by Spanish and Slavic Native Speakers, Proceedings of the Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition conference (GASLA 1998) , University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, click here to read a pdf version.
1999 The Complex-Predicate / N-N Compounding Connection in L2 Acquisition.Proceedings of the Boston University Conference on Language Development XXIII , Cascadilla Press
1999 Aspectual Constraints in the Mental Lexicon of Bulgarian Speakers, ClasNET Working Papers , Universite de Montreal.
1998 A Parametric Approach to the L2 Acquisition of Aspect, In Proceedings of the Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition 1997, Montrul, S. and Slabakova, R. (eds), Montreal, McGill Working Papers in Linguistics
1998 How Can You Eat a Cake and Have It Too: L2 Acquisition of English Telicity, Proceedings of the Boston University Conference on Language Development XXII , Cascadilla Press
1997 Some Aspect-Related Constructions in English - A Sentence Matching Investigation, In Proceedings of the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition Conference , Sorace, A., Heycock, C. and Shillcock, R. (eds.), University of Edinburgh
1997 L2 Acquisition of the Null Telic Morpheme: a Psycholinguistic Investigation, in Proceedings of the Boston University Conference on Language Development XXI , E. Hughes et al (eds), Cascadilla Press
1997 How Light is a Light Verb, In Proceedings of the XV Western Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, B. Agbayani & S. Tang (eds), Stanford: CSLI
1996 Bulgarian Psych Verbs - a Case for Distributed Morphology, In McGill Working Papers in Linguistics, vol.11, S. Montrul & M. Kessler (eds), McGill University, Montreal
1996 Bulgarian Psych Verbs, in Proceedings of the Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics Conference, J. Toman (ed), University of Maryland at College Park