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Description: To date, there are yet few investigations exploring the acquisition of Austro-Bavarian dialect features in relation to the development of standard German in the second language. What is more, no studies exist attempting to capture the temporal-relational emergence of dialect features across residence time in the Austro-Bavarian naturalistic context. In order to address these desiderata, 40 migrants with German as a second language (L2) completed translation tasks assessing their ability to translate from standard German into dialect and vice versa. Taking a cross-sectional developmental perspective, our goal is to examine when dialect features (e.g., a-darkening, l-vocalization, etc.) manifest in subjects’ multivarietal repertoire during residence in Austria over a timespan of approximately 13 years. The results of Bayesian binary logistic multilevel modeling reveal that subjects quickly acquire arguably salient lexical and phonetic dialect features such as negation particles (e.g., standard nicht versus dialectal ned), fricative reduction (e.g., standard ich versus dialectal i:), and Bavarian article use (e.g., standard das versus dialectal des), but, even after over a decade of residence, do not produce morphological or syntactic dialectal features such as 2. person plural -s (e.g., standard braucht versus dialectal brauchts) or relative clause connectors (e.g., standard die versus dialectal de wos). On the whole, our results add to discussions concerning how the Austro-Bavarian naturalistic context impacts on patterns of L2 language variation and use and lend key insights into inquiries concerning which dialect features L2 learners acquire and when.