A study examined the production of lateral consonants in seven male university students bilingual in Spanish and Catalan who had studied French in elementary and secondary school. A questionnaire elicited information about the subjects' use of each language with parents, with friends, at home, and in school. Each subject then read a 775-word text in French. Acoustical analysis of the recorded speech revealed the incidence of velarized (typical of Catalan) and non-velarized (typical of Spanish and French) lateral consonants. Results indicate that the production of lateral consonants in French tended to be the non-velarized variety found in French and Spanish. However, comparison of these results with those of other studies suggests that the context in which Spanish and Catalan are learned may be an important factor in phonetic transfer or interference. (MSE)