The Acquisition of Native and Local Phonology by Russian Immigrants in Philadelphia

Michael L. Friesner & Aaron J. DinkinUniversity of Pennsylvania

Here's the PDF of our paper, "The Acquisition of Native and Local Phonology by Russian Immigrants in Philadelphia", as it appeared in Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 12.2 (2006), based on our presentation at NWAV 34 in New York (2005).

Due to space constraints in PWPL, we were unable to present in the written paper all of our informants' vowel charts as we had presented them at NWAV. For your enjoyment, here they all are:

Also, here's the survey we conducted for our pilot study.