Soviet sociolinguistics

[anne marie devlin]

There was a poster presentation at the recent EuroSLA conference comparing prosodic patterns between female L1 and L2 users of Russian.  You might find something of interest there.  I don't have a link but if you google the following  you'll find a link.  
Riikka Ullakonoja, Department of Languages, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

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> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 12:14:06 -0700
> From: ameliede at EARTHLINK.NET
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Soviet sociolinguistics
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> 
> At 08:11 AM 9/19/2010, you wrote:
> 
> >To my chagrin I don't know of any socio-linguistic studies of
> >phonetics in Russian. I would love to see the description of various
> >social groups in one city, let's say Moscow, "valley girls" vs.
> >working class vs. market salesmen/women.
> The results of the questionnaire I referred to 
> that was reported in one of the two
> books mentioned in my review article (see below) 
> included much phonological data,
> all in the speech of "filologi", defined as 
> people in Moscow who made a living from words--college
> students, intelligentzia, etc. The parameters 
> were defined in detail in the book. [I am writing this from
> memory, since I do not have a copy of my own 
> article in front of me--so I may be inaccurate in details]
> Some of the phonic details [NB I am being 
> noncommital re phonemic status] were things like hardening
> of /r'/ and /n'/ before palatalized consonants.
> One of my criticisms was that the pre-selected 
> sample, while okay in quantity, deliberately excluded the possibility
> of class distinctions that you point to above. I 
> attributed this to a reluctance to discuss such possible class issues back
> then. There were some interesting parameters 
> (age, profession, male vs female speakers?), but 
> some were ignored (as I recall, and I confess 
> that as I write this more memories are coming 
> back), e.g., speakers whose parents were not 
> native speakers of Russian (what % of Moscovites 
> in the '80's?) were included in the survey, but 
> were not separated out in the statistics.
> Jules Levin
> 
> >ep 19, 2010, â 3:00 AM, J F Levin íàïèñàë):
> >
> >>I published a review article of two Soviet sociolinguistic books.
> >>One had many statistical data based on questionnaires of native
> >>speakers. Here is the reference:
> >>L. P. Krysin & D. N. Shmelev (eds.): Social'no-lingvisticheskie
> >>issledovanija and J. D. Desheriev: Social'naja lingvistika.
> >>Language in Society, X: 1 (April 1981), 85-96.
> >
> >Alina Israeli
> >Associate Professor of Russian
> >LFS, American University
> >4400 Massachusetts Ave.
> >Washington DC 20016
> >(202) 885-2387 fax (202) 885-1076
> >aisrael at american.edu
> >
> >
> >
> >
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