Acquisition of non-contrastive focus in Russian by adult English-dominant bilinguals.

Finally, the effect of constituent order approached significance ( z = 1.8, p = 0.07), driven by the more robust effect obtained in the bilingual participants’ data but lacking in the data from the baseline speakers. 4.2.6 Experiment 2: discussion In Experiment 2, we examined whether English-Russian bilinguals demonstrate alignment with native Russian speakers in their use of prosodic features and constituent order when assigning focus at the phrasal level.

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