Publications below are organized by topic. Please see CV on homepage for a chronological list.

Publications

>Clefts: Interpretation, use and processing

  1. Walker-Cecil, K. & E. Destruel. (2020). Interpretation of focus in Haitian Creole se-clefts. In Gielau, E. & Gupton, T. (eds.) East and West of The Pentacrest: Linguistic Studies in Honor of Paula Kempchinsky. New York: John Benjamins. (preliminary version here)
  2. Destruel, E., Beaver, D. & L. Coppock. (2019). It's not what you expected! The surprising nature of cleft alternatives in French and English. Frontiers in Psychology  10.  
  3. Destruel., E.  & J. DeVeaugh-Geiss. (2019). (Non)-exhaustivity in French c’est-clefts. In Christopher Piñon (ed.), Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 12 (Selected papers from CSSP 2017).
  4. ​Destruel, E. & J. DeVeaugh-Geiss. (2018).  On the interpretation and processing of exhaustivity: Evidence of variation in English and French clefts. Journal of Pragmatics 138, 1-16. (preliminary version here) 
  5. Destruel, E. (2017).  The pragmatics of (non-)prototypical French clefts: Influence of the type of question on naturalness & interpretation.  Journal of Pragmatics 121, 58-75. (preliminary version here) 
  6. Destruel, E., Beaver, D. & L. Coppock. (2017).  Clefts: Quite the contrary! Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21, Edinburgh, UK.
  7. Destruel, E. (2016).  Focus marking asymmetries in Colloquial and Standard French: A stochastic OT account. Journal of French Language Studies 26:3, 299-326.
  8. Destruel, E., Velleman, D., E. Onea, D. Bumford, J. Xue, & D. Beaver. (2015).  A cross-linguistic study of the non-at-issueness of exhaustive inferences. In Florian Schwarz (ed.), Experimental Perspectives on Presuppositions. Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, Series Vol. 45. Springer. pp. 135-156.
  9. Destruel, E. & L. Velleman. (2014).  Refining contrastiveness. Empirical evidence from the English it-cleft. In Christopher Piñon (ed.), Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 10 (Selected papers from CSSP 2013), pp.197–214.
  10. Destruel, E. (2013).  An empirical approach to the pragmatics of the (non)-canonical French sentences. Proceedings from the 46th Chicago Linguistic Society Conference, Chicago, USA.
  11. Destruel, E. (2012). ​  The French c'est-cleft: An empirical study on its meaning and use. In Christopher Piñon (ed.), Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 9 (Selected papers from CSSP 2011), pp.95–112.
  12. Velleman, D. B., D. Beaver, E. Destruel, D. Bumford, E. Onea & E. Coppock. (2012).  It-clefts are IT (inquiry terminating) constructions. In Anca Chereches, Neil Ashton and David Lutz (eds.), Proceedings of Semantics And Linguistics Theory (SALT) 22, pp. 441-460.

>Prosody & Information Structure 

  1. Destruel, E. & C. Féry. (2020).  Prominence in French dual focus. Language & Speech.
  2. Destruel, E. & C. Féry. (2019).  Compression in French: Effect of length and information status on the prosody of post-verbal sequences. In Proceedings of Going Romance Conference 30, 2016. Frankfurt, Germany. 
  3. Destruel, E. & C. Féry. (2015).  Compression in post-verbal sequences in French. In Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Glasgow, Scotland. 
  4. Chen, A. & E. Destruel. (2010).  Intonational encoding of focus in Toulousain French. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference Speech and Prosody. Chicago, IL, USA. 

>Second Language Acquisition 

  1. Destruel, E. (in preparation).  Processing pragmatic inferences in L2 French speakers.
  2. Destruel, E. (in preparation). Scalar diversity in L2 learners of French.
  3. Hoot, B., T. Leal & E. Destruel. (2020). Object focus in Spanish: An investigation using three tasks. Glossa.
  4. Leal, T., Destruel, E. & B. Hoot. (2018).  The acquisition of focus in L2 Spanish. Second Language Research. (online version here)
  5. Leal, T., Destruel, E. & B. Hoot. (2018). Focus marking in Native, Heritage and Bilingual Spanish speakers. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8:2, 217-251 (DOI: 10.1075/lab.16009.lea​). (preliminary version here)
  6. ​Destruel, E. & B. Donaldson. (2017). Second language acquisition of pragmatic inferences: Evidence from the French c'est-cleft. Applied Psycholinguistics 38:3, 703-732 (preliminary version here)

>Ph.D dissertation (University of Texas at Austin, 2013)

         An empirical investigation of the meaning and use of the French c'est-cleft.