Grants and Awards
Awards
Graham and Gail Wright Distinguished Scholar 2007-2008
Recipient Edward G. Pleva Award, June 2010
Selected Grants
April 2011 Joyce Bruhn de Garavito (PI; with Silvia Perpiñán)
  Title: "Bilinguals as agents of language change (ADF)."
  Funding Agency Research Western
  Type of Grant New Research and Scholarly Initiative Award (ADF)
  Project Period 2011-2013
  Funds approved: $ 45,157.00
 
June 2010 Joyce Bruhn de Garavito (PI)
  Title: "Focus and topic in a free word order languag."
  Funding Agency Research Western. International Research Award Competition
  Type of Grant Research
  Project Period 2010-2011
  Funds approved: $ 6,855.00
 
May 2010 Joyce Bruhn de Garavito (PI)
  Title: "Language Contact and Change: The case of Spanish and French in Canada."
  Funding Agency Office of the Vice-President (Research and International Relations), Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Fund, Reapplication Assistance
  Type of Grant Research
  Project Period 2010-2011
  Funds approved: $ 7,500.00
 
June 2009 Joyce Bruhn de Garavito
  Title: "Early bilinguals and second language speakers as agents of language change in contact situations."
  Funding Agency Research Western
  Type of Grant Research, Reapplication to SSHRC assistance
  Project Period 2009
  Funds approved: $ 5,000.00
 
August 2007 Member of a team granted an Interdiciplinary Development Initiative, Ileana Paul and Rob Stainton, principal investigators.
  Title: "Interdisciplinary approaches to language."
  Funding Agency UWO
  Type of Grant IDI
  Project Period 2008-2011
  Funds approved: $ 75,000.00
 
August 2007 Philippe Prévost, Joyce  Bruhn de Garavito, Claudia Borgonovo, Antonia Androutsopoulou, Manuel Español Echevarría. Philippe Prévost, Principal investigator.
  Title: "Les phénomènes d’interface et la nature de l’opcionalité en acquisition d’une langue seconde".
  Funding Agency External SSHRC
  Type of Grant Standard Research Grant
  Project Period 2007-2010
  Funds approved: $ 75,000.00
 
March 2007 Joyce Bruhn de Garavito and David Heap
  Title: "Spanish study in Cuba: Universidad de Holguín."
  Funding Agency International Curriculum Fund
  Type of Grant Contribution towards students traveling to Holguín to study Spanish.
  Project Period 2007-2009
  Funds approved: $ 9,967.00
 
June 2006 SSHRC Conference grant  
  Title of project: "Hispanic Linguistics Symposium"
  Principal researcher
  Amount Awarded: 15,000.00
 
April 2004

SSHRC (Co-researcher)
Title of project: Les interfaces syntaxe/sémantique et syntaxe/morphologie dans l'acquisition des groupes nominaux en langue seconde
Principal Researcher: Philippe Prévost, Université Laval
Amount awarded: $ 212,209.00

 
Feb. 2003 AHSS - International
  Title of project: "Language contact and change: the case of Nahuatl and Spanish."
  Amount awarded: $ 5,500.00
 
August 2001

ADF small grants competition
Title: Competence and performance in second language acquisition: Do learners know more than we think?"
Amount awarded: $ 7,083.00

 
May 2001 External SSHRCC Research grant.
  Title of project: "The steady state grammar of early and late bilinguals."
  Amount awarded: $ 83368.00 over three years.
 
Sept. 2000 Internal SSHRC Research grant. Awarded for a research project titled "Bilingualism and the Critical Period."
  Amount awarded: $ 5,000.00
 
Nov. 1996 Heritage Cultures and Languages Programs, Citizen’s Participation and Multiculturalism, Department of Canadian Heritage. 
  Grant for creation of teaching materials integrating computer assisted learning and classroom interaction.
  Amount awarded: $ 4,000.00
   
Nov. 1996 Heritage Cultures and Languages Programs, Citizen’s Participation and Multiculturalism, Department of Canadian Heritage. 
  Funding for a conference on the acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages.
  Amount awarded: $4,000.00
 
April 1996 Royal Bank Teaching Innovation Fund.  Award for the creation of teaching materials for a modular approach to the teaching of Intermediate Spanish, integrating computer assisted learning and classroom interaction.
  $ 2,250 matched by Department of Hispanic Studies
  Amount $ 4,500.00
   
July 1995 Concordia University Professional Development Fund.
  Award for research into first and second language acquisition of Spanish.
  Amount $ 3,990.00