- B.A. (Honours, English Language & Literature), University of Novi Sad, 1989
- M.A. (Linguistics), University of Ottawa, 1994
- Ph.D. (Linguistics), University of Ottawa, 1999
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- University of Novi Sad, Department of English Language & Literature (Lecturer in English)
- University of Ottawa, Department of Linguistics and School of Health Sciences (Post-doctoral research fellow: Syntactic abilities in high-functioning individuals with Down Syndrome.
- McGill University, Department of Linguistics (Post-doctoral fellow: The acquisition of clitic phenomena -- funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada).
- International Baccalaureate Organization (Assistant Examiner for English A1), 2004.
- Carleton University, Institute of Cognitive Science (Adjunct Research Professor) 2004-07.
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- Organising committee, conference: Formal approaches to Slavic linguistics 12, University of Ottawa, May 2003.
- Principal organiser, Special sesson on Slavic psycholinguistics, Formal approaches to Slavic linguistics 12, University of Ottawa, May 2003.
- Organiser, conferences: Psycholinguistic shorts 5 & 6, University of Ottawa, March 2002 & April 2003.
- Grant participant and workshop co-leader, conference: Partnership for peace through debating.  Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) & Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Belgrade, Serbia & Montenegro; Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina, April-July 2004.
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- Books edited: 2
- Chapters in books: 2
- Papers in refereed journals: 2
- Published book reviews: 2
- Papers in refereed conference proceedings: 9
- Papers read: 29
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- (as guest editor): Slavic psycholinguistics (special issue of Cahiers linguistiques d'Ottawa 32), 2004.
- (with Maria Luisa Rivero, Olga Arnaoudova and Wayles Browne): [Formal] approaches to [Slavic] linguistics: the Ottawa meeting 2003.  Michigan Slavic Publications, in press.
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- (with Marijana Marelj): "Interpreting empty subjects in nontensed complement clauses: child and adult strategies".  In: O. Miseska-Tomic (ed.), Balkan syntax and semantics. Linguistik Atkuell/Linguistics today 67.  Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2004.  Pp. 301-19. 
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-  (with Alice Eriks-Brophy & Helen Goodluck): "Sensitivity to A- and A' -dependencies in high-functioning individuals with Down Syndrome".  Proceedings of the 27th annual Boston University conference on language development.  Brookline (Mass.), USA: Cascadilla Press, 2002.  Pp. 243-51.
- "'I shave just like man': intrinsic and extrinsic reflexive constructions in child English".Proceedings of the 2002 annual Canadian Linguistics Association meeting.  2004.  Pp. 312ń25.
- "Children's interpretation of 'feel-like' constructions".  Proceedings of the 2003 annual Canadian Linguistics Association meeting.  2004.  Pp. 214-33.
- (with Alice Eriks-Brophy & Helen Goodluck): "Comprehension and production in the styntax of high-functioning individuals with Down Syndrome".  Proceedings of the annual Canadian Linguistic Association conference, Winnipeg, May 2004, 9pp.  http://www.carleton.ca/~mojunker/ACL-CLA/pdf/Bliss-CLA-2004.pdf 
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- D. Townsend & T. Bever, Sentence comprehension: the integration of habits and rules (2001).  Canadian Journal of Linguistics 47 (1/2).  Pp. 109-11.
- E. Van Gelderen, A history of English reflexive pronouns: person, self and interpretability (2000).  Canadian Journal of Linguistics 48 (1/2).  Pp. 103-05. 
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- "Locality asymmetry in the processing of subject and object relatives: evidence from Slavic".  Department of Linguistics, McGill University, October 2002. 
- "Psiholingvisticka analiza relativnih recenica" [The psycholinguistic analysis of relative clauses].  Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, April 2002.
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- "The clitic se and its numerous uses: evidence from child grammar".  Workshop: Theoretical problems of pronouns, ESSE5-2000.  Helsinki, August 2000.
- "Infinitive/da + present variation in Serbian and Croatian: Evidence from child grammars". First International Conference on Language Variation in Europe.  Barcelona, June-July 2000.
- (with Marijana Marelj):"Subject-object asymmetries in the processing of wh-fillers".  First Meeting on Speech Technology.   Seville, November 2000.
- "Interpreting PrOs in nonfinite complement clauses: child and adult strategies. Conference on the Balkan Sprachbund properties.  Leiden, June 2001.
- "'I hurt self, and he has hurt hisself': early production of reflexive pronouns in English". Psycholinguistic Shorts.  University of Ottawa, March 2002.
- "'I shave just like man': intrinsic and extrinsic reflexive constructions in child English".   2002Annual Meeting, Canadian Linguistics Association.  Toronto, May 2002.
- (with Alice Eriks-Brophy & Helen Goodluck): "Sensitivity to A- and A' -dependencies in high-functioning individuals with Down Syndrome".  27th annual Boston University conference on language development.  Boston University, November 2002.
- "Unselected datives in child grammar".  Psycholinguistic Shorts.  University of Ottawa, April 2003.
- "Children's interpretation of 'feel-like' constructions".   2003Annual Meeting, Canadian Linguistics Association. Dalhousie University, June 2003.
- (with Alice Eriks-Brophy & Helen Goodluck): "Comprehension and production in the syntax of high-functioning individuals with Down Syndrome".  2004 Annual Meeting, Canadian Linguistics Association.  University of Manitoba, May 2004.  Also presented at: Linguistics Mini Conference 2004.  University of Ottawa, May 2004.
- "Indefinite reflexive clitics in child Serbian: explicit alternatives to implicit arguments".  2004 Annual Meeting, Canadian Linguistics Association.  University of Manitoba, May 2004.  Also presented at: Linguistics Mini Conference 2004.  University of Ottawa, May 2004.
- (with Nigel Duffield & Ayumi Matsuo): "The processing of French 'medial causative' constructions".  Psycholinguistic Shorts.  University of Ottawa, March 2005.
- (with Nigel Duffield, Ayumi Matsuo & Leah Roberts): "The dog in the nighttime (again): on the curious acceptability of ungrammatical sentences".  European Second Language Association 2005 Conference EUROSLA 15.  Dubrovnik (Croatia), September 2005.
- (with Alice Eriks-Brophy & Helen Goodluck): "Complex syntax in high-functioning individuals with Down Syndrome".  4th International Conference on Developmental Issues in Down Syndrome.  Portsmouth (UK), September 2005.
- (with Alice Eriks-Brophy & Helen Goodluck): "Syntactic skills in high-functioning individuals with Down Syndrome".  American Speech and Hearing Convention.  San Diego, November 2005.
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