Emilie Destruel Johnson | John Benjamins

Walker-Cecil, Kezia and Emilie Destruel Johnson 2021 Chapter 1. Interpretation of focus in Haitian Creole se-clefts East and West of The Pentacrest: Linguistic studies in honor of Paula Kempchinsky, Gupton, Timothy and Elizabeth Gielau (eds.), pp. 17–40 | Chapter

While past literature on Haitian Creole focus structures primarily concentrates on predicate clefts (see DeGraff, 1995; Glaude & Zribi-Hertz, 2012; Harbour, 2008; Lefebvre, 1990), few authors use empirical data to justify proposed interpretations of clefts. In this paper, we empirically test… read more

Destruel Johnson, Emilie and Caroline Féry 2019 Chapter 8. Compression in French: Effect of length and information status on the prosody of post-verbal sequences Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 15: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 30, Frankfurt, Feldhausen, Ingo, Martin Elsig, Imme Kuchenbrandt and Mareike Neuhaus (eds.), pp. 157–176 | Chapter

This paper sheds light on the conditions for post-focal and post-verbal compression in French canonical sentences. We report on a production experiment, which results suggest that arguments and adjuncts are phrased differently, and that length and information structure only exert a significant… read more

Leal, Tania, Emilie Destruel Johnson and Bradley Hoot 2018 The realization of information focus in monolingual and bilingual native Spanish Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8:2, pp. 217–251 | Article

The strategies used to signal information focus — the non-presupposed part of a sentence — in Spanish are under debate. The literature suggests that focus must appear rightmost; however, empirical evidence shows that speakers also realize focus in-situ. Moreover, there is limited research… read more

Destruel Johnson, Emilie and Glenn Starr 日本言語政策学会 / Japan Association for Language Policy. 言語政策 / Language
Policy 10. 2014: Pragmatic inferences in adjective scales Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism: Online-First Articles | Article

While scalar inferences associated with some have featured in most of the past investigations into L2 implicature derivation, this study examines acquisition of pragmatic inferences licensed by adjective pairs (e.g., <intelligent, brilliant>, <dirty, filthy>). Previous work has focused mainly on… read more