I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Toronto’s Language and Learning Lab, under the supervision of Dr. Patricia Ganea. I have recently obtained my PhD in Linguistics from New York University, and defended my dissertation, titled “Understanding possibilities in children’s counterfactual reasoning” in August 2023.
My primary areas of interest are first language acquisition and semantics. I am particularly interested in the acquisition of counterfactual constructions and possibility reasoning, as well as the interaction between causality and counterfactuality.
Between 2021 and 2023 I served as the managing editor for the journal Language Acquisition.
Research Interests:
First Language Acquisition, Counterfactuality, Possibility Reasoning, Psycholinguistics, Semantics, Pragmatics, Philosophy of Language
News:
July 2025 – Presenting at CogSci 2025 (“Backwards counterfactuals and the closest possible world”)
Professional Affiliations:
Linguistic Society of America
Cognitive Science Society
Women in Cognitive Science
Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Honor Society
Other:
My Erdős number is 5
Grosu (5) <– Champollion (4) <– Joshi (3) <– Kosaraju (2) <– Aronov (1) <– Erdős (0)
Contact:
ioana.grosu [at] nyu [dot] edu, ioana.grosu [at] utoronto [dot] ca
Address
University of Toronto
9-285, 252 Bloor Street West
Toronto, ON