CONFERENCES:

Conference Presentations, Workshops, Invited Talks, Etc.

Valenzuela, Elena, Joyce Bruhn de Garavito, Alma Ramirez, Ana Faure and Ewelina Barski. 2008. “Gender and Diminutives in L2 Spanish”, Romance Turn 3, University of Southampton, England, September 2008.

Valenzuela, Elena, Joyce Bruhn de Garavito, Alma Ramirez and Ana Faure. 2008. “Spanish diminutives and the acquisition of L2 gender”, Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 38), University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, April 2008.

Bruhn de Garavito, Joyce and Valenzuela, Elena. 2007. "Ser and estar in second language acquisition: a matter of aspect". International Symposium on Bilingualism VI (ISB6), The University of Hamburg (Germany), May 30 – June 2, 2007.

Bruhn de Garavito, Joyce and Valenzuela, Elena. 2007. "Ser and estar in second language acquisition: a matter of aspect". International Symposium on Bilingualism VI (ISB6), The University of Hamburg (Germany), May 30 – June 2, 2007.

Valenzuela, Elena and Elaine McIlwraith. 2007. "Topic and focus in early bilingual grammars". International Symposium on Bilingualism VI (ISB6), The University of Hamburg (Germany), May 30 – June 2, 2007.

Valenzuela, Elena and Elaine McIlwraith. 2007. "The syntax-discourse interface and early bilingual grammars: Topic and focus constructions in heritage Spanish grammars". Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 37), University of Pittsburgh (PA), March 2007.

Valenzuela, Elena. 2006. "Specificity in early bilingual grammars". Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS), The University of Western Ontario, October 2006.

Borgonovo, Claudia, Joyce Bruhn de Garavito, Pedro Guijarro Fuentes, Philippe Prévost and Elena Valenzuela. 2006. "The acquisition of clitic drop in L2 Spanish". Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA) 2, McGill University, August 2006.

Bruhn de Garavito, Joyce and Elena Valenzuela. 2006. "Ambiguity in the input: the L2 acquisition of the Spanish future tense". Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA) 2, McGill University, August 2006.

Borgonovo, Claudia, Joyce Bruhn de Garavito, Pedro Guijarro Fuentes, Philippe Prévost and Elena Valenzuela. 2006. "Specificity, learners know: On the acquisition of clitic drop in L2 Spanish". Linguistics Symposium on Romance Linguistics (LSRL) 36, Rutgers University, New Jersey, April 2006.

Bruhn de Garavito, Joyce and Elena Valenzuela. 2006. "Interpretational déficit?: Evidence from the future tense in Spanish". Linguistics Symposium on Romance Linguistics (LSRL) 36, Rutgers University, New Jersey, April 2006.

Valenzuela, Elena, Elaine McIlwraith, and Lauren Keys. 2005. "Revisiting Gender in L2 Spanish". Bilingual Workshop on Theoretical Linguistics (BWTL), The University of Western Ontario, December 2005.

Bruhn de Garavito, Joyce, Pedro Guijarro Fuentes, Philippe Prévost and Elena Valenzuela. 2005. "Specificity in Spanish: the syntax/semantics interface in SLA". European Second Language Association conference (EUROSLA), University of Zagreb, Croatia, September 2005.

Bruhn de Garavito, Joyce and Elena Valenzuela. 2005. "The copulas ser and estar: a comparison of early and late bilinguals". International Symposium on Bilingualism 2005 (ISB5), Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain, March 2005.

Valenzuela, Elena. 2004. "Examining the Representational Deficit Hypothesis at the End State Level: Evidence from L2 Spanish CLLD and English CLD constructions". Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD29), November 2004.

Valenzuela, Elena. 2004. "Incomplete End State L2 Acquisition: Evidence from L2 Spanish CLLD and English CLD constructions". Language Processing Brown Bag Series, Department of Psychology, McMaster University, November 2004.

Bruhn de Garavito, Joyce and Elena Valenzuela. 2004. "The status of ser and estar in late and early bilingual L2 Spanish". Second Language Research Forum (SLRF), Pennsylvania State University, College Park, October 2004.

Bruhn de Garavito, Joyce and Elena Valenzuela. 2004. "The copulas ser and estar in L2 acquisition". 7th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, October 2004.

Bruhn de Garavito, Joyce and Elena Valenzuela. 2004. "Exploring the relationship between transfer and input in the acquisition of Spanish passives". Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA7), University of Indiana, Bloomington, April 2004.

Bruhn de Garavito, Joyce and Elena Valenzuela. 2003. "Verbal and adjectival passives in L2 Spanish". Bilingual workshop in theoretical linguistics 7 Atelier bilingue de linguistique théorique, McMaster University, December 12, 2003.

Valenzuela, Elena. 2003. "The acquisition of left dislocation constructions in L2 Spanish and English". 6th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese, University of New Mexico, October 2003.

Bruhn de Garavito, Joyce & Elena Valenzuela. 2003. "The L2 acquisition of Spanish adjectival and verbal passives". 6th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese, University of New Mexico, October 2003.

Valenzuela, Elena. 2003. "An Introduction to Second Language Acquisition". Workshop at the Canadian Forces Language School, Ottawa, Canada, March 14, 2003.

Valenzuela, Elena. 2002. "Topicalization in Spanish and English L2 end state grammars". 5th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Iowa, October 2002.

Valenzuela, Elena. 2002. "The status of topic constructions in near-native Spanish". Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA), University of Ottawa, Canada, April 2002.

Valenzuela, Elena. 2001. "The Acquisition of Topic Constructions in L2 Spanish". Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), November 2001.

Valenzuela, Elena. 2001. "Ultimate attainment and the CP layer: Topic constructions in L2 Spanish". 4th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October 2001.

White, Lydia, Elena Valenzuela, Martyna MacGregor, Ingrid Leung, and Hela Ben Ayed. 2000. "The status of abstract features in interlanguage: Gender and number in L2 Spanish". Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), November 2000.

White, Lydia, Elena Valenzuela, Martyna MacGregor, Ingrid Leung, and Hela Ben Ayed. 2000. "Abstract features in L2 grammars: evidence from interpretation of null nominals". Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition 2000, MIT, March - April 2000.

Liceras, Juana and Elena Valenzuela. 1998. "Resultatives and N-N compounds in L2 Spanish: The subset principle revisited". Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition '98, University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon, September 1998.

Valenzuela, Elena. 1997. "The So-Called Small Clauses and the role of L1 in the Acquisition of Spanish as a Second Language". Linguistic Workshop. Congress of the Canadian Association of Hispanists (CAH), Learned Societies, Memorial University, St. John, Newfoundland, May - June 1997.

Liceras, Juana, Elena Valenzuela, Elena González, Samira Boufrahi and Lourdes Díaz. 1997. "Is L2 Learning Difficulty in the Eye of the Beholder?" Congress of the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics (CAAL), Memorial University, St. John, Newfoundland, June 1997.

Liceras, Juana, Lourdes Díaz and Elena Valenzuela. 1997. "On the Relationship between Morphological Paradigms and Syntax: Null and Overt Arguments in L1 and L2 Acquisition of Spanish". Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA) '97, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, May 1997.

Valenzuela, Elena, Lourdes Díaz, Gloria Feliu and Juan Antonio Redo. 1997. "L2 Acquisition and the "Morphological' Model of Parametric Knowledge: Small Clauses and N-Drop in Non-Native Spanish". European Second Language Association Conference (EUROSLA) '97, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, May 1997.

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