Perception of accent in bilingual French/American-English children by native adult speakers

In a previous study, Dodane and Bijeljac-Babic (2017) found that French/AmericanEnglish children aged 3;6 to 6;0, bilingual from birth, produced disyllabic words which had acoustic properties for lexical stress (f0, syllable duration intensity) differed those of monolingual peers, showing cross-linguistic influences. order check whether these differences between the productions their French- or American English-speaking peers were perceptible by native adults, we investigated perception French English speakers. Using an Elo rating task, participants asked indicate in each trial word out two competitors was child. Words groups bilinguals, one dominant other American-English. The results clearly show both adults successful distinguishing but only if they not language raters. relationship correlates some “accent” adult speakers seems more intricate than expected is further discussed.