Abstract:Adapting one's production of prosodic cues to a second or non-dominant language can be difficult. The present study focuses on French-English bilinguals' ability to adapt their prosody to coordinate phrase-final lengthening and lexical stress. Because French has no lexically-coded prosody, it might be difficult for Frenchdominant speakers to simultaneously control lexical and phrasal prosodic cues. Our preliminary results demonstrate that not only the speaker's L1, but the relative dominance of one language ov… Show more
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