%0 Book
%A Juliane Besters-Dilger
%A Hana Gladkova
%D 2016
%C Berlin, Germany
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 9783653069389
%T Second language acquisition in complex linguistic environments
%B Russian native speakers acquiring standard and non-standard varieties of German and Czech
%R 10.3726/978-3-653-06938-9
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1050690
%X 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.
%G English