This discussion will analyze the linguistic behavior of the thirty-seven respondents in the ALS survey who completed full linguistic interviews and who were not raised in New York City. Despite the fact that many of them have spent more than twenty years in New York City, they cannot be considered native speakers; during their formative years, they were not exposed to the traditional dialect of the city. Therefore this group can be used as a valuable check upon the validity of the discussion of New York respondents in Chapters 7 and 11.

Any phonological variable which is known to be widespread throughout the United States should show the same patterns for the eighty-one New Yorkers and the thirty-seven out-of-towners.

Any phonological variable which is being superimposed upon a partially acquired New York City pattern, will also affect the out-of-towners. It may not affect their speech to the same degree, but the general direction of stratification should be similar.

Any phonological variable which is a part of the native New York City pattern, as acquired in pre-adolescent years, should not show stylistic or class stratification in the speech of the out-of-towners.