She published extensively in top ranked journals, co-edited a volume and is currently preparing a book on first language acquisition. She is involved in the European project “European cooperation in science and technology” (COST) on language acquisition and profiling bilingual specific language impairment. Prof. Pirvulescu served as discipline representative Linguistics Program (2006-2009), Graduate Coordinator in the Department of French (2011-2013) and is currently Associate Chair in the Department of Language Studies.