Effects of synchronous speech task on length and prosody in interdialectal nonprestige varieties

Studies of accommodation between different dialects have to a greater or lesser extent focused oil languages with a spoken standard ora socially prestigious dialect. Irish (Gaelic) has no spoken standard, nor can my of the three major spoken dialects be considered more socially prestigious than the others. This article reports oil a pilot study that explores cross-dialect speaker interaction in a task-oriented context focusing primarily oil prosodically induced effects oil prominence and duration. Although accommodation was not found on a large scale in the synchronous speech task involved, interaction among various pairs of speakers raised interesting questions, both linguistic (e.g., what level of linguistic detail is perceptually relevant) and methodological (e.g., how best to Study linguistic interaction between speakers from noncontiguous dialect areas when there is no standard dialect).