Theory of Mind and Evidentiality in Romani-Bulgarian Bilingual Children

The paper reports two studies of the development of false belief reasoning in bilingual Roma children in Bulgaria. No previous work has considered Roma children. Two studies were conducted, and in the second study the Roma children spoke a dialect of Romani that contains evidential markers, as does Bulgarian, their second language. Results reveal no…

Analyzing Speech Errors of Minority Children Acquiring Bulgarian As A Second Language

The article focuses on the speech errors of two groups of minority children-Turkish and Gypsy (Roma) living in Bulgaria and learning Bulgarian as their second language (L2). The oral speech of these children is analyzed and the errors in their L2 on different levels (phonological, morphological and syntactical) are classified.Different factor are identified explanining the…

Roma (Gypsies)

There are about 20,000 Romani Americans (Roma) in Texas, out of a national population of about one million. Romani people, commonly known as Gypsies, have been in the Americas since 1498, when Columbus brought some on his third voyage to the West Indies. Their subsequent forced transportation brought most Gypsies across the Atlantic. To understand…