Joyce Bruhn de Garavito
Professor, Hispanic Studies
Chair
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Ph.D. McGill Office: UC 159 Extension: 85864 Email: joycebg@uwo.ca Office Hours: by appointment |
Areas of Interest:
- Second language acquisition
- Bilingualism
- Language change
- The syntax and acquisition of Nahuatl (Mexico)
- Syntax
Recent Publications:
Bruhn de Garavito, Joyce (to appear). 'Knowledge of tense in the L2 mental representation of L2 Spanish.' P. Kempchinsky (ed). Proceedings of the 5th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese. Somerville: Cascadilla Press.
Bruhn de Garavito, Joyce (to appear). 'La position syntaxique du th?me des verbes psychologiques datifs'. Revue Quebecoise de Linguistique.
Bruhn de Garavito, J., Heap, D., and J. Lamarche (To appear). 'French and Spanish se: Underspecified, not reflexive.' In S. Burelle and S. Somesfalean (eds.), Proceedings of the 2002 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association.
Bruhn de Garavito, Joyce (to appear). 'The (Dis)association Between Morphology and Syntax: the Case of L2 Spanish.' S. Montrul (ed.) Proceedings of the 4th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese. Somerville: Cascadilla Press.
Bruhn de Garavito, Joyce (to appear). 'Learners' competence may be more accurate than we think.' In J. Liceras, H. Zobl & H. Goodluck. Proceedings of GASLA 2002. Somerville: Cascadilla press.
Duffield, N.,L. White., J. Bruhn de Garavito, S. Montrul & Pr?vost (2002). Clitic placement in L2 French: evidence form sentence matching. Journal of Linguistics.
Bruhn de Garavito, J. and L. White (2002). "L2 acquisition of Spanish DPs: the status of grammatical features." In Ana Teresa P?rez-Leroux and Juana M. Liceras (eds.), The Acquisition of Spanish Morphosyntax: The L1/L2 Connection (pp. 151-176). Doradrecht: Kluwer.
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 25th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (84-94). Somerville: Cascadilla Press.
Bruhn de Garavito, J. and P. Guijarro-Fuentes (2002). "L2 acquisition of indefinite object drop in Spanish." In Jo?o Costa and maria J. Freitas (eds.) GALA 2001 Proceedings (pp.60-67). Lisbon: Associa??o Portuguesa de Lingu?stica
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.
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. (2000). "Early and latebilinguals 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. (2000).? The Syntax of Spanish Multifunctional Categories and Near-native Competence.? PhD. dissertation, McGill University.
"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, (2000) 62-72.
J. and L. White. . "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 Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. (2000)164-175.
"The SE constructions in Spanish and near-native competence." Spanish Applied Linguistics. 3 (1999) 247-295.
"Adult SLA of SE Constructions in Spanish: Evidence against Pattern Learning" In A. Stringfellow, D. Cahana-Amitay, E. Hughes, and A. Zukowski (eds.) Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. (1999).
Montrul, S and J. Bruhn de Garavito (eds.) . Special Issue of Second Language Research: The L2 Acquisition of Spanish, 15. (1999).
Recent Conference Papers:
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 6-7, 2003.
Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2003). 'Second language acquisition of Spanish agreement.' Paper presented at the VIII Foro de Ling??stica Aplicada, Universidad de las Am?ricas, Puebla, May 16-17, 2003.
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. (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). 'La relaci?n entre la concordancia verbal y el orden de las palabras en el espa?ol L2.' Paper presented at the annual conference of the Asociaci?n Canadiense de Hispanistas, 2002 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Toronto, May 25-28, 2002.
Heap, D., Lamarche, J. and Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2002) 'French and Spanish se: underspecified, not reflexive.' Paper presented at the annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, 2002 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Toronto, May 25-28, 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 Ling??stica Aplicada, Universidad de las Am?ricas, Puebla, May 17-18, 2002.
Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2002). 'Acquisition of object pronouns in Spanish: Theoretical linguistics and the teacher. Paper presented at the 1st Annual UWO Conference on Applied Linguistics, The University of Western Ontario, May 7-8, 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.
Bruhn de Garavito, J. (2002). "Subject/Object asymmetries in early and late bilinguals. Paper presented at the 47th Annual Conference of the International Linguistic Association, York University, April 4-7, 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, organzied 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 5 Atelier bilingue de linguistique th?orique/ 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.?
"Early and late bilinguals and the acquisition of dative clitic doubling." 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.
"The L2 acquisition of dative clitic doubling in Spanish."? presented at 24th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Nov. 1999.
"Functional categories and the se constructions in Spanish." presented at the Third Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., October 8-10, 1999.
J. and L. White "Against the failed features hypothesis: L2 acquisition of Spanish gender". 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.
Research Grants:
?February, 2003
AHSS - International
Title: Language contact and change: the case of Nahuatl and Spanish.
August, 2001
ADF small grants competition
Title: Competence and performance in second language acquisition: Do learners know more than we think?
May, 2001
External SSHRCC Research grant
Title: The steady state grammar of early and late bilinguals
Community Service:
2003 Organized a series of lectures for the Hispanic community in London. The lectures took place in the Central Library (Galleria) and were delivered by different professors in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures.
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