Second language acquisition in complex linguistic environments : Russian native speakers acquiring standard and non-standard varieties of German and Czech (New ed)

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.