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EDITED VOLUMES

Bruhn de Garavito, J., D. Heap & A-T. Pérez-Leroux (eds.) (2010). Special Issue of the Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Révue Canadienne de Linguistique, 55(2): 145-272/

Bruhn de Garavito, J. & E. Valenzuela (eds.) (2008). Selected Proceedings of the 2006 Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Montrul, S and J. Bruhn de Garavito (eds.) (1999). Special Issue of Second Language Research: The L2 Acquisition of Spanish, 15.

ARTICLES PUBLISHED (Title, Journal, Volume, Date, Page Numbers):

Borgonovo, C., Bruhn de Garavito, J., & Prévost, P. (2015). Mood selection in relative clauses: Interfaces and variability. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 37(1), 33-69.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2013). Semantic features in L2 Spanish. A response to Cuza, Guijarro-Fuentes, Pires and Rothman. International Journal of Bilingualism. (1706 words).

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2011). ‘Subject object asymmetries in the grammar of bilingual and monolingual Spanish speakers: evidence against connectionism.’ Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 1, 111-148.

Bruhn de Garavito, J., D. Heap & A-T. Pérez-Leroux (eds.) (2010) Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics, Special Issue of the Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Révue Canadienne de Linguistique, 145-148.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. & E. Valenzuela. (2008). ‘Eventive and stative passives in Spanish L2 acquisition: a matter of aspect’. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Special Issue. P. Guijarro-Fuentes and K. Geeslin (eds.), 11(3): 323-336.

Bruhn de Garavito, Joyce (2002). ' La position syntaxique du thème des verbes à sujet d’expérience datif.' Revue Quebecoise de Linguistique, 31, 137-156.(This article appeared in 2004, but the issue of the journal is dated 2002).

Duffield, N., L. White., J. Bruhn de Garavito, S. Montrul & P. Prévost (2002). Clitic placement in L2 French: evidence from sentence matching. Journal of Linguistics, 38, 487-525

Montrul, Silvina and J. Bruhn de Garavito (1999). “The L2 Acquisition of Spanish: Generative Perspectives.” Montrul, S. and Bruhn de Garavito (eds.) Special Issue of Second Language Research: The L2 Acquisition of Spanish, 15, 111-114.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (1999). “The SE constructions in Spanish and near-native competence.” Spanish Applied Linguistics, 3, 247-295.

White, L., Bruhn-Garavito, J., Kawasaki, T., Pater, J. and P. Prévost (1997). “The researcher gave the subject a test about himself: Problems of ambiguity and preference in the investigation of reflexive binding.” Language Learning. 47:145-172

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

Ramírez-Trujillo, A. P., & Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2015). Verbal agreement in the L2 Spanish of speakers of Nahuatl. In T. Judy & S. Perpiñán (Eds.), The Acquisition of Spanish in Understudied Language Pairings (pp. 49-74). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2013). What research can tell us about teaching: The case of pronouns and clitics. In M. Whong, K.-h. Gil and H. Marsden (eds.) Universal Grammar and the Second Language Classroom. Springer, Dordrecht, 17-34

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2013). Why theory and research are important to the practice of teaching: The case of mood choice in Spanish relative clauses. In J. Schwieter (ed.) Innovative Research and Practices in Second Language Acquisiton and Bilingualism. Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 85-105.

Bruhn de Garavito, Joyce (2009). Eventive and Stative Passives: The Role of Transfer in the Acquisition of ser and estar by German and English L1 Speakers. In Selected Proceedings of the 11th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Joseph Collentine, Maryellen García, Barbara Lafford, and Francisco Marcos Marín (eds.), 27-38. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

Borgonovo, C., J. Bruhn de Garavito & P. Prévost. (2008). ‘Methodological issues in the L2 acquisition of a Syntax/Semantics phenomenon: How to assess L2 knowledge of mood in Spanish relative clauses. In Selected Proceedings of the 10th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, J. Bruhn de Garavito & E. Valenzuela (eds.), 13-24. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. & E. Valenzuela (2007). ‘Interpretive deficit? Evidence from the future tense in L2 Spanish. In Camacho, J., N. Flores-Ferrán, L. Sánchez, V. Déprez & M. J. Cabrera (eds.), Romance Linguistics 2006. Selected papers from the 36th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), New Brunswick, March 31-April 2 2006 (pp 43-56). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Bruhn de Garavito, Joyce (2007). ‘Acquisition of the Spanish plural by French L2 speakers: The role of transfer.” In J. Liceras, H. Zobl and H. Goodluck (eds.), The Role of Formal Features in Second Language Acquisition (pp 271-298). Mahwah, NJ: Laurence Erlbaum.

Bruhn de Garavito, Joyce & Cristina Atoche (2006). “Variability in contact Spanish: implications for second language acquisition”. In Lefebvre, Claire, Lydia White and Christine Jourdan (eds.) L2 Acquisition and Creole Genesis. Dialogues (pp 87-111). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Borgonovo, C., Bruhn de Garavito, J. & P. Prévost (2006). Is the semantics/syntax interface vulnerable in L2 acquisition? Focus on mood distinctions in relative clauses in L2 Spanish. In V. Torrens and L. Escobar (eds), The acquisition of syntax in Romance languages (pp 353-369). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Borgonovo, Claudia, Joyce Bruhn de Garavito, Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes, Philippe Prévost and Elena Valenzuela (2006). “Specificity in Spanish: the syntax/semantics interface in SLA”. In S. H. Foster-Cohen, M. Medved Krajnovic and J. Mihaljevic Djigunovic (eds.). The Eurosla Yearbook, Volume 6 (pp 57-78). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Bruhn de Garavito, Joyce (2006). ‘Knowledge of clitic doubling in Spanish: A comparison of early and late bilinguals’. In S. Montrul, P. Prévost and R. Slabakova (eds.), Inquiries in Linguistic Development. In honor of Lydia White (pp 305-333). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Bruhn de Garavito, Joyce (2003). 'The (Dis)association Between Morphology and Syntax: the Case of L2 Spanish.' S. Montrul and F. Ordóñez (eds.) Linguistic Theory and Language Development in Hispanic Languages (pp. 398-417). Somerville: Cascadilla Press.

Bruhn de Garavito, Joyce (2003). 'Knowledge of tense in the mental representation of L2 Spanish.' In P. Kempchinsky and C.-E. Piñeros (eds.) Theory, Practice and Acquisition (pp 284-298). Somerville: Cascadilla Press.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. and L. White (2002). "L2 acquisition of Spanish DPs: the status of grammatical features." In Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux and Juana M. Liceras (eds.), The Acquisition of Spanish Morphosyntax: The L1/L2 Connection, pp.153-178. Dordrecht: Kluwer.

White, L., C. Brown, J. Bruhn-Garavito, D. Chen, M. Hirakawa, S. Montrul (1999). “Psych verbs in second language acquisition.” In E. Klein and G. Martohardjono (eds.) The Development of Second Language Grammars: a Generative Approach, pp. 171-196. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

White, L., S. Montrul, M. Hirakawa, D. Chen, J. Bruhn-Garavito and C. Brown (1998). “Zero morphology and the T/SM restriction in the L2 acquisition of Psych Verbs.” In M. Beck (ed.), Morphology and the interfaces in L2 Knowledge, pp. 257-282. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (1997). “Verb complementation, coreference and tense in the acquisition of Spanish as a second language.” In Glass, W.R. and A.T. Pérez-Leroux (eds.), Contemporary Perspectives on the Acquisition of Spanish, pp. 167-188. Cascadilla Press, Somerville, Mass.

Bruhn-Garavito, J. (1995). “L2 acquisition of verb complementation and Binding Principle B.” In. F. Eckman et al (eds.), Second Language Acquisition Theory and Pedagogy, pp. 79-99. Lawrence Erlbaum and Assoc.

PROCEEDINGS OF REFEREED CONFERENCES

Bruhn de Garavito, J. & S. Perpiñán (forthcoming). Subject pronouns and clitics in the Spanish interlanguage of French L1 speakers. Proceedings of the Canadian Linguistics Association Annual Meeting, May 2014.

Goad, H., L. White & J. Bruhn de Garavito. (2011). Prosodic transfer at different levels of structure: The L2 acquisition of Spanish plurals. In Nick Danis, Kate Mesh & Hyunsuk Sung (eds). Proceedings of the 35th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development: Online Proceedings Supplement, 10pp.
http://www.bu.edu/bucld/files/2011/05/35-Goad-White-Bruhn-de-Garavito.pdf

Herrera Herrera, R. A. Holzrichter & Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2006). “Parámetro de polisíntesis en náhuatl: ¿desaparición por influencia del español?, VIII Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste, Serie Memorias (pp 183-197). Hermosillo, Sonora: Editorial Unison.

Bruhn de Garavito (2006). “Conexionismo o nativismo? Construcciones con se en hablantes bilingües. In Valencia, Alba (ed.) Actas del XIV Congreso de la Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de América Latina (ALFAL) (10 pages). Monterrey: ALFAL.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. & E. Valenzuela (2006). “The status of Ser and Estar in late and early bilingual L2 Spanish.” In C. A. Klee and T. L Face (eds), Selected Proceedings of the 7th Conferenceon the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages (100-109). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Bruhn de Garavito, Joyce, Herrera Herrera, Roberto & Amanda Holtzrichter (2005). “Nahuatl and the Polysynthesis Parameter”. InClaire Gurski (ed.) Proceedings of the 2005 Canadian Linguistics Association Annual Conference, 11pp. http://ling.uwo.ca/publications/CLA-ACL/CLA-ACL2005.htm

Borgonovo, C., Bruhn de Garavito, J. and P. Prévost (2005). “Acquisition of mood distinctions in L2 Spanish.” Alejna Brugos, Manuella R. Clark-Cotton, and Seungwan Ha (eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 97-108). Somerville: Cascadilla Press.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. and E. Valenzuela (2005). “Exploring the relationship between transfer and input in the acquisition of the Spanish passives.” In Laurent Dekydtspotter, Rex A. Sprouse, and Audrey Liljestrand (eds.), Proceedings of the 7th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA) (13-23). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Bruhn de Garavito, J., Heap, D. and Lamarche, J. (2004). 'French and Spanish se: Underspecified, non reflexive.' S. Burelle and Somesfalean, S. (eds.), Proceedings of the 2002 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association (pp 42-54).

Bruhn de Garavito, Joyce (2003). "Learners' competence may be more accurate than we think." In J. Liceras, H. Zobl & H. Goodluck. Proceedings of the 6th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2002): L2 Links (pp. 17-23). Somerville: Cascadilla press.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2002). “Verb raising in Spanish: a comparison of early and late bilinguals.” In Skarabela, B., Fish, S. and A. Do (eds.) Proceedings of the 26th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp 84-94). Somerville: Cascadilla Press.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. and P. Guijarro-Fuentes (2002). “L2 acquisition of indefinite object drop in Spanish.” In João Costa and Maria J. Freitas (eds.) GALA 2001 Proceedings (pp.60-67). Lisbon: Associação Portuguesa de Linguística

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2000). “The impersonal constructions in Spanish and near-native competence.” In A. Juffs, T. W. Talpas, G. Mizera & B. Burtt (eds.). University of Pittsburgh Working Papers in Linguistics, 4, 62-72

Bruhn de Garavito, J. and L. White. (2000). “L2 Acquisition of Spanish DPs: the status of grammatical features.” In C. Howell, S. Fish and T. Keith-Lucas (eds), Proceedings of the 24th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 164-175). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Bruhn de Garavito, J (1999). “Adult SLA of SE Constructions in Spanish: Evidence against Pattern Learning.” In Greenhill, Annabel, Littlefield, Heather and Cheryl Tano (eds.) Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp.112-119). Somerville: Cascadilla Press.

Duffield, N., S. Montrul, J. Bruhn-Garavito and L. White (1998). “Determining L2 knowledge of Spanish clitics - On line and off line.” In Greenhill, A., Hughes, M., Littlefield, H. and H. Walsh (eds.) Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 177-188). Somerville: Cascadilla Press.

White, L., S. Montrul, D. Chen and J. Bruhn-Garavito (1997). “L2 psych verbs, zero morphology and the T/SM restriction.” In Hughes, E. Hughes, M. and Greenhill, A. (eds.) Proceedings of the 21st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 695-706). Somerville: Cascadilla Press.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (1996). “Functional categories and object-verb agreement in Spanish.” In Proceedings of the 1996 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association (pp. 13-22).

Bruhn-Garavito, J & S.A. Montrul (1996). “Verb movement and clitic placement in French and Spanish as a second language.” In A. Stringfellow, D. Cahana-Amitay, E. Hughes, and A. Zukowski (eds.) Proceedings of the 20th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development Vol. 1, pp. 123-134. Somerville: Cascadilla Press.

Bonneau, J., J. Bruhn-Garavito and A. Libert (1995). “Feature checking and English particles.” In P. Koskinen (ed.), Proceedings of the 1995 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics, University of Toronto, pp. 37-48

Bonneau,J., J. Bruhn-Garavito and A. Libert (1995). “Feature checking and Spanish se.” In V. Samiian & J. Schaeffer (eds.) Proceedings of the Western Conference on Linguistics. (WECOL 94), pp. 1-15. Department of Linguistics, California State University, Fresno.

SELECTED PAPERS READ

(Refereed conferences)

Bruhn de Garavito, J. & Ramírez, A. (2015). Languages in contact and bilingualism: The case of object doubling in Spanish. Paper presented at the 10th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB10), Rutgers University, May 20-24.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2014). Knowledge of clitics in L2 Spanish: the case of definite articles. Paper presented at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS 2014), Purdue University, November 13-16, 2014.

Ramírez Trujillo, A. P. & Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2014). Verbal agreement in the L2 Spanish of speakers of Nahuatl. Paper presented at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS 2014), Purdue University, November 13-16, 2014.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2014). Acquisition of determiners in L2 Spanish: Evidence from Noun Drop. Paper presented at the Second Language Research Forum (SLRF) 2014, University of South Carolina, October 23-25.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. and S. Perpiñán (2014). Subject pronouns and clitics in the Spanish interlanguage of French L1 speakers. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association, Brock University, May 24-26.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2013). Learning word order in the Spanish classroom: Lexico-semantics and pragmatics. Paper presented at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS 2013) held at the University of Ottawa, October 17-20 2013.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2012). Nominal ellipsis in second language Spanish: knowledge of constraints. Poster presented at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS 2012) held at the University of Florida, October 25-28 2012.

Borgonovo, C., Bruhn de Garavito, J. & Prévost, P. (2012). Mood choice in relative clauses: The Interface Hypothesis and native speakers. Poster presented at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS 2012) held at the University of Florida, October 25-28 2012.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2012). L2 knowledge of gender and number agreement in ellipsis constructions. Paper presented at the 2012 Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) held at Southern Utah University, April 20-22, 2012.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2011). Generative research into second language acquisition: Why applied linguists should sit up and take notice. Paper presented at the 2011 Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS 2011) held at the University of Georgia, Athens, October 7-10, 2011.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2011). Generative SLA half a century on: The case of English and Spanish object pronouns. Paper presented at the 2011 meeting of the American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) held in Chicago, March 26-29 2011.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2010). Ellipsis and AGREE: Parallelism effects in L2 Spanish. Paper presented at the 2010 Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Indiana University, October 14-17 2010.

Faure, A. and Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2010). Specificity in L2 Spanish. Paper presented at the 2010 Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Indiana University, October 14-17 2010.

Goad, H., White, L., & Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2010). Prosodic Transfer at Different Levels of Structure: The L2 Acquisition of Spanish Plurals. Poster presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development, 5-7 November, 2010.

Goad, H., White, L., & Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2010). ‘The L2 Acquisition of Spanish Plurals by French Speakers: Constraints on Syllable Structure or on Higher Prosodic Structure? Paper presented at GALANA (Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America), University of Toronto, 1st-3rd of September 2010.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2010). ‘Spanish as a Heritage Language in Canada.’ Paper presented at Langue et Territoire/Language and Territory, Laurentian University, August 29th –Sept 3rd, 2010.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2010) ‘Gender and number mismatches in ellipsis in L2 Spanish: What they tell us about learners’ competence’. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, Concordia University, May 31, 2010.

Bruhn de Garavito, J., E. Valenzuela, E. Barski, A. Díez, A. Faure, A. Ramírez (2010). ‘Agreement or inherent gender features: what causes L2 problems?’ Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, Concordia University, May 31, 2010.

Borgonovo, C., Bruhn de Garavito, J., Guijarro-Fuentes, P., Prévost, P. & Valenzuela, E. (2009). ‘Frequency and vulnerability of syntax/discourse properties.’ Paper presented at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 21st-24th, 2009.

Bruhn de Garavito, J., Guijarro-Fuentes, P., Iverson, M. & Valenzuela, E. (2009). From Romance to Romance and why it might not be so straightforward: Null objects in the L2 Spanish of Brazilian Portuguese natives. Paper presented at GALA (Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbo, September 9-11.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2009). ‘Ellipsis as evidence for knowledge of the nature of gender and number in L2 Spanish.’ Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, Carleton University, May 23-25, 2009. Also presented at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 21st-24th, 2009.

Borgonovo, C., J. Bruhn de Garavito & P. Prévost (2009). ‘L2 Acquisition at the Syntax-Semantics Interface: Focus on Mood Distinctions in L2 Spanish Relative Clauses’. Paper presented at The Mind-Context Divide Workshop, University of Iowa, April 30-May 2nd 2009.

Valenzuela, E., J. Bruhn de Garavito, A. Ramírez Trujillo, A. Faure & E. Barski (2008). ‘Spanish diminutives and the acquisition of L2 gender.’ Paper presented at the Romance Turn III: Workshop on the Acquisition of Romance Languages, University of Southampton, Sept. 18-20, 2008.

Valenzuela, E., J. Bruhn de Garavito, A. Ramírez Trujillo & A. Faure (2008). ‘Spanish diminutives and the acquisition of L2 gender.’ Paper presented at the 2008 Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 4-6, 2008.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2007). ‘Eventive and stative passives: the role of transfer in the acquisition of ser and estar by German L1 speakers.’ Paper presented at the 2007 Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, University of Texas, San Antonio, Nov. 1-4, 2007

Borgonovo, C., J. Bruhn de Garavito & P. Prévost (2007). ‘The acquisition of mood distinctions in L2 Spanish relative clauses.’ Paper presented at the 2007 Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, University of Texas, San Antonio, Nov. 1-4, 2007.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. & E. Valenzuela (2007). ‘Ser and estar in second language acquisition: a matter of aspect.’ Paper presented at the 6th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB6), University of Hamburg, May 30-June 2, 2007.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. & A. Ramírez (2007). ‘Constrained convergence: the case of Nahuatl and Spanish.’ Paper presented at the 2006 Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, University of Western Ontario, October 19-22, 2006.

Bruhn de Garavito, Joyce (2006). “Selective Transfer: The structure of the adopting language decides what will be adopted.” Paper presented at the 2006 Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, University of Western Ontario, October 19-22, 2006.

Borgonovo, C., Bruhn de Garavito & P. Prévost (2006). 'Methodological issues in the L2 acquisition of syntax/semantics phenomenon: How to assess L2 knowledge of mood in Spanish relative clauses'. Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Université de Western Ontario, London, Canada. 19-22 octobre 2006.

Borgonovo, C., Bruhn de Garavito, J., Guijarro-Fuentes, P., Prévost, P. & E. Valenzuela (2006a). 'The syntax/semantics interface in L2 acquisition: investigating clitic drop in L2 Spanish. The Romance Turn II, Université d'Utrecht', Utrecht, Hollande. 7-9 septembre 2006.

Borgonovo, C., Bruhn de Garavito, J., Guijarro-Fuentes, P., Prévost, P. & E. Valenzuela (2006b). 'The acquisition of clitic drop in L2 Spanish'. Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America 2, Université McGill, Montréal, Canada. 17-19 août 2006.

Bruhn de Garavito, J., Guijarro-Fuentes, P., Prévost, P. & E. Valenzuela (2006c) 'Specificity, learners know: On the acquisition of clitic drop in L2 Spanish'. Paper presented at the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) XXXVI, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. 31 March - 2 April 2006.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. & Elena Valenzuela (2006a). ‘Interpretive deficit?: Evidence from the future tense in L2 Spanish’. Paper presented at the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) XXXVI, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. 31 March - 2 April 2006.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. & Elena Valenzuela (2006b). ‘Ambiguity in the input: the L2 acquisition of the Spanish future tense. Paper presented at the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America 2, Université McGill, Montréal, Canada. 17-19 August 2006.

Bruhn de Garavito, J., Herrera Herrera, R. and A. Holtzrichter (2005). “Converging on Word Order in Nahuatl and Spanish”. Paper presented at the Workshop on Linguistic Convergence, Penn State, November 10th, 2005

Bruhn de Garavito, J. and E. Valenzuela (2005). “The future can refer to the present, the present can refer to the future”. Paper presented at the 8th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages, Penn State, Nov. 11-13 2005.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2005). “Conexionismo o nativismo? Construcciones con se en hablantes bilingües’. Paper presented at the XIV Congreso de la Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de América Latina (ALFAL), Universidad de Nuevo León, Monterrey, México, Octubre 17-21, 2005.

Bruhn de Garavito, J., Guijarro-Fuentes, P., Prévost, P. and Elena Valenzuela (2005). “Specificity in Spanish: the syntax/semantics interface in SLA.” Paper presented at EUROSLA 15, The University of Zagreb, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 14-17 September 2005.

Borgonovo, C., Bruhn de Garavito, J., and P. Prévost (2005). “L2 acquisition at the syntax-semantics interface: Focus on mood distinction in L2 Spanish relative clauses.” Paper presented at GALA (Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition), Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy, 8-10 September 2005.

Bruhn de Garavito, J., Herrera Herrera, R. and A. Holtzrichter (2005). “Nahuatl and Spanish: Is there syntactic leveling?. Paper presented at 5th International Symposium on Biligualism (ISB5), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Universitat Pompeu Fabre, Barcelona, Spain, 20-23rd March 2005.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2005). “Indefiniteness and the Syntax/Semantics interface.” Paper presented at the Ontario dialogues on the acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese 2005 / Diálogos ontarienses sobre la adquisición del español y el portugués 2005, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, March 4th, 2005.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2004). “The Polysynthesis Parameter and Nahuatl: the problem of variable judgments.” Paper presented at the 8e Atelier bilingue de linguistique théorique/
8th Annual Bilingual Workshop in Theoretical Linguistics, York University, December 10, 2004.

Bruhn de Garavito, J., R. Herrera Herrera and A. Holzrichter (2004). “Parámetro de la polisíntesis en náhuatl: ¿desaparición por influencia del español?” Paper presented at the VIII Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste”, Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Sonora (Mexico), 17-19 November, 2004.

Borgonovo, C., Bruhn de Garavito, J. and P. Prévost (2004). “ Knowledge of mood distinctions in L2 Spanish.” Paper presented at the 7th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, October 15-17, 2004. Also presented at the 29th Boston University Conference on Language Development, Nov. 5-7 2004.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. and E. Valenzuela (2004). “The copulas ser and estar: Exploring the relationship between input and L2 grammars.” Paper presented at the 7th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, October 15-17, 2004.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. and E. Valenzuela (2004). “The status of ser and estar in late and early bilingual L2 Spanish.” Paper presented at the Second Language Research Forum 2004 (SLRF 2004), The Pennsylvania State University, Oct. 14-17, 2004.

Borgonovo, C., Bruhn de Garavito, J. and P. Prévost (2004). “Ultimate attainment in L2 acquisition: Can mood distinction in L2 Spanish relative clauses be acquired?” Paper presented at The Romance Turn - Workshop on the Acquisition of Romance Languages
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, 16-18 September 2004

Bruhn de Garavito, J., R. Herrera Herrera and A. Holzrichter (2004). “Has Spanish contributed to the structure of modern Nahuatl?.” Paper presented at Montreal Dialogues: Processes in L2 Acquisition and in Creole Genesis, Université de Québec à Montreal, August 27-29, 2004.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. and E. Valenzuela (2004). " Exploring the relationship between transfer and input in the acquisition of the Spanish passives." Paper presented at GASLA 7 (Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition). Indiana University (Bloomington), April 16-18, 2004)

Bruhn de Garavito, J. and E. Valenzuela (2003). "Verbal and adjectival passives in L2 Spanish." Paper presented at the at the 7e Atelier bilingue de linguistique théorique/
7th Annual Bilingual Workshop in Theoretical Linguistics, McMaster University, December 12, 2004

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2003). “When a subject is not a subject: Knowledge of the properties of post-verbal NPs in Spanish”. Paper presented at the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism, University of Arizona at Tempe, April 30-May 3rd, 2003.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2003). ‘Phonological transfer and the acquisition of morphology: the Spanish plural.” Paper presented at the Second UWO Conference on Applied Linguistics, The University of Western Ontario, June 7th, 2003.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2002). Tense morphology in the acquisition of Spanish. Paper presented at the 5th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Iowa, October 18-20, 2002

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2002). 'What theoretical linguistics and SLA research can tell us about the teaching of Spanish.' Paper presented at the VII Foro de Lingüística Aplicada, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, May 17-18, 2002.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2002). L2 disassociation between morphology and syntax: A problem of mapping or a deficit? Paper presented at GASLA 6 (Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition), The University of Ottawa, April 25-28, 2002.

Guijarro-Fuentes, P. & J. Bruhn de Garavito (2002). “Input and L2 knowledge of subjacency in relation to indefinite object drop in Spanish”. Paper presented at the Form-Meaning Connections in Second Language Acquisition, organized by the University of Illinois at Chicago, February 21-24, 2002.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2001). “Object agreement in Spanish: psych verbs and unaccusatives.” Paper presented at the 5e Atelier bilingue de linguistique théorique/
5th Annual Bilingual Workshop in Theoretical Linguistics, Huron University College and University of Western Ontario, December 15 and 16, 2001

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2001). "Verb raising in Spanish: A comparison of early and late bilinguals." Paper presented at the 26th Boston University Conference on Language Development, Nov 1-4, 2001.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2001). "L2 knowledge of Spanish verb agreement and word order." Paper presented at the 4th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Oct. 11-13, 2001.

Guijarro-Fuentes, P. & J. Bruhn de Garavito (2001). "Principles of economy and object-drop in L2 Spanish." Paper presented at the 4th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Oct. 11-13, 2001.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. & P. Guijarro-Fuentes (2001). "L2 acquisition of indefinite object drop in Spanish." Paper presented at GALA 2001 (Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition), Universidade de Lisboa, Palmela (Portugal), September 14-16, 2001.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2001). "Early and late bilinguals: How different are they?" Paper presented at the Third International Symposium on Bilingualism, University of West England, Bristol, April 18-20, 2001.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2000). "Bilingualism and the Critical Period." Paper presented at the 4th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Indiana University, Bloomington, November 17-19, 2000.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2000). “Early and late bilinguals and the acquisition of dative clitic doubling". Paper presented at the 30th Annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, University of Florida, Gainesville, Feb. 2000. Also at GASLA (Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition), MIT, Boston, April 2000.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (1999). “The L2 acquisition of dative clitic doubling in Spanish.” Paper presented at 24th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Nov. 1999.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (1999). “Functional categories and the se constructions in Spanish.” Paper presented at the Third Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., October 8-10, 1999.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. and L. White (1999). “Against the failed features hypothesis: L2 acquisition of Spanish gender”. Papers presented at SLRF (Second Language Research Forum), University of Minnesota, September 1999. Also presented at the 1999 Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese, Georgetown University, October, 1999. Also presented at the 24th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Nov. 1999.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (1998). “Adult SLA of se constructions in Spanish: Evidence against pattern learning. Paper presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development, Nov., 1998.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (1998). “The impersonal constructions in Spanish and near-native competence: Evidence against the Fundamental Difference Hypothesis”. Paper presented at GASLA ‘98 (Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition), September, 1998.

Duffield, N., Montrul, S., Bruhn de Garavito, J. and L. White (1997). “Psycholinguistic investigation of clitic placement: a crosslinguistic perspective.” Paper presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development, Nov., 1997.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (1997). “Multifunctionalism and native-like competence.” Paper presented at the 1997 Colloquium on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese, McGill University, Montreal, May, 1997.

Duffield, N., Montrul, S., Bruhn de Garavito, J. and L. White (1997). “The acquisition of Spanish clitics: a psycholinguistic investigation.” Paper presented the 1997 Colloquium on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese, McGill University, Montreal, May, 1997.

Bruhn de Garavito, Joyce (1997). “The role of transfer in the L2 Acquisition of the Spanish noun phrase” Paper presented at EUROSLA 7, May, 1997.

Bruhn de Garavito, Joyce (1997). “The acquisition of preposition incorporation in Spanish.” Paper presented at GASLA 97 (Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition, McGill University, Montreal, May, 1997.

White, L., S.A. Montrul, D. Chen, and J. Bruhn de Garavito (1996). “L2 psych verbs and the T/SM restriction: The status of the zero causative morpheme.” Paper presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development, Nov., 996.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (1996). “Functional categories and object-verb agreement in Spanish.” Paper presented at the Canadian Linguistic Association Annual Conference, Brock University, May, 1996.

White, L., J. Bruhn-Garavito, T. Kawasaki, J. Pater and P. Prevost (1995). “The researcher gave the subject a test about himself: methodological issues in the investigation of reflexive binding.” Paper presented at the Second Language Research Forum, Cornell University, Sept., 1995.

Montrul, S. and J. Bruhn-Garavito (1995). “Verb Movement and clitic placement in French and Spanish as a second language.” Paper presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, Nov., 1995.

Bruhn-Garavito, J. (1995). “Verb complementation, co-reference and tense in the SLA of Spanish.” Paper presented at Penn State Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish as a First or Second Language, Penn State University, Oct., 1995.

Montrul, S. and J. Bruhn-Garavito (1995). “Clitic placement in the acquisition of Spanish as a second language.” Paper presented at Second Language Research Forum, Cornell University, Oct., 1995

Bruhn-Garavito, J. (1995). “The dative as structural case in Spanish.” Paper presented at the Canadian Linguistic Association Annual Conference, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, June, 1995.

White, L., C. Brown, J. Bruhn-Garavito, D. Chen, M. Hirakawa and S. Montrul (1995). “Psych verbs in second language acquisition.” Paper presented at the Language Acquisition Research Symposium, Utrecht, May, 1995.

White, L., Brown, C., Bruhn-Garavito, J. Chen, D. Hirakawa, M. and S. Montrul (1995). “Psych verbs in second language acquisition.” Paper presented at Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA), The Graduation Center of the City University of New York and Queens College, New York, May, 1995.

Bruhn-Garavito, J. (1995). “Verb complementation, coreference and tense in the second language acquisition of Spanish.“ Paper presented at Georgetown University Roundtable on Linguistics, Georgetown, March, 1995.

Bonneau J., J. Bruhn-Garavito and A. Libert (1994). “Feature checking and Spanish se.” Paper presented at the 24th Western Conference on Linguisitcs, UCLA, October 21, 1994.

Bruhn-Garavito, J. (1994). “L2 acquisition of the Spanish plural.” Paper presented at the Cincinnati Conference of Romance Languages, Cincinnati, Ohio, May, 1994.

Bruhn-Garavito, J., J. Bonneau and A. Libert (1994). “Strengthening AgrO.” Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America, Boston, Mass. January 7, 1994.

Bruhn-Garavito, J. (1993). “L2 acquisition of the Spanish subjunctive and Principle B of Binding Theory.” Paper presented a the 22nd University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee Linguistics Symposium, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Oct., 1993.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

(Plenary speaker)

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2014). Languages in contact and bilingualism: The case of object doubling in Spanish. Plenary Paper presented at the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages 2014 (LSRL), The University of Western Ontario, May 2-4.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2008). ‘Second language acquisition, bilingualism and language contact: The role of transfer. Plenary paper presented at the 2008 Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Université Laval, Oct. 23-26, 2008.

(Invited speaker)

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2014). La importancia de nuestro idioma en Canadá:
hablemos español con la familia. Paper presented at the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages 2014 (LSRL), The University of Western Ontario, May 2-4.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2011). Bilingualism and second language acquisition: What are the advantages? Paper presented at Emory and Henry College, March 16 2011.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2007). “A conversation about interfaces in language acquisition.” Paper presented in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Toronto, 20th January 2007.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2006) “La incorporación de sustantivos.” Paper presented at the Transatlantic Seminar Series, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, The University of Western Ontario, September 29, 2006.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2005). “Preliminary thoughts on linguistics and biology.” Paper presented at the Transatlantic Seminar Series, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, The University of Western Ontario, February 10, 2005.

Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2004). "Conexionismo vs. Gramáticas Generativas"' Coloquio de Primavera 2004, Departamentos de Lenguas , Universidad de las Américas, Puebla (Mexico).