Anna Grishanova (HSE University) Stress variation in the speech of L2 Russian and dialectal speakers: the case of verbs in past indicative

Stress variation in standard and dialectal Russian is an interesting and well-researched phenomenon. While A. Zaliznjak (1985) attributes stress variation to the pragmatic factor, W. Lehfeldt (2006) suggests that frequency of the lexeme plays an important role as well. Data presented in the study by D. Savinov, E. Skachedubova, A. Somova (2020) indicates that sociolinguistic factors like age are crucial to thoroughly describe stress variation in Standard Russian. Differences in stress patterns in various Russian dialects are often explained by the history of the dialect under observation. To our knowledge, the variation of stress in the speech of L2 Russian speakers has not been discussed before. This study aims to grasp what factors influence the stress variation of the verbs in past indicative in dialectal and L2 Russian speakers. The data comes from dialectal and bilingual corpora of the Linguistic Convergence Laboratory. Specifically, I investigate the verbs that have been previously outlined by D. Savinov, E. Skachedubova, A. Somova (2020).