Second language acquisition in complex linguistic environments
Russian native speakers acquiring standard and non-standard varieties of German and Czech
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Russian-speaking immigrants residing in the Czech Republic or Germany are faced with the challenge of acquiring the Slavic (Czech) or Non-Slavic (German) language of the new environment. This process is influenced by their native language. The volume empirically analyses the acquisition of a related language compared to that of a non- or distantly related one and explores how the non-homogeneous language of the new environment – situation of diglossia in the Czech Republic, diaglossia in Germany – influences this acquisition. It additionally examines the impact of several sociolinguistic factors on L2 acquisition, especially age.
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Second language acquisition in complex linguistic environments, Juliane Besters Dilger
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- 2016
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- Title
- Second language acquisition in complex linguistic environments
- Subtitle
- Russian native speakers acquiring standard and non-standard varieties of German and Czech
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Juliane Besters Dilger
- Publisher
- Peter Lang Edition
- Publisher
- 2016
- ISBN10
- 3631678517
- ISBN13
- 9783631678510
- Series
- Linguistik international
- Description
- Russian-speaking immigrants residing in the Czech Republic or Germany are faced with the challenge of acquiring the Slavic (Czech) or Non-Slavic (German) language of the new environment. This process is influenced by their native language. The volume empirically analyses the acquisition of a related language compared to that of a non- or distantly related one and explores how the non-homogeneous language of the new environment – situation of diglossia in the Czech Republic, diaglossia in Germany – influences this acquisition. It additionally examines the impact of several sociolinguistic factors on L2 acquisition, especially age.