“Frog Story” and “Map Task” in the Russian countryside

Abstract

This article reports on experimental work with speakers of standard Russian and Russian dialects on the Kola peninsula. The proposed methodology, though showing some difficulties when applied in a Russian dialectological fieldwork setting, provides data on various varieties of Russian that can prove to be a rich source for many kinds of comparative linguistic research.

Keywords

• Russian
• language
• dialectology
• frog story
• map task