This project explores patterns of variation in the processing of prominence structures. In particular, we investigate how German–Italian and German–English bilingual children between 8 and 12 years integrate morphosyntactic and discourse information during narrative reading, by using eye-tracking experiments. Bilinguals may differ from each other in their sensitivity to morphosyntactic or discourse information during discourse processing. Among the factors that contribute to this variation, we explore the role of cross-linguistic influence, differences in bilingual profiles in terms of language and literacy exposure, individual cognitive skills and bilinguals' ability to share discourse strategies across their two languages.