ORAL2006, a corpus of spoken Czech, provides new opportunities to research the speech of various sociolinguistic types of speakers. In this article, the authoress focuses on regional variation in speech. The speakers in ORAL2006 come from all regions of Bohemia, so she can observe differences in their idiolects related to the region of their origin. Phenomena of traditional dialects bound to a particular region are also typical for the given region in ORAL2006. Some of these phenomena spread from their original region to neighboring regions and often also to the borderland. These phenomena tend to be characteristic for interdialectal Czech. They frequently consist of some type of simplification in the morphological system. As concerns speech in the Czech borderland, the authoress can state that some regional phenomena are only characteristic for a certain part of the borderland, i.e. the part neighboring upon the original region of the phenomena.
The article deals with the dialectal names of two kinds of soup, cabbage and garlic. The variety in the names of these soups reflects the fact that this item is known throughout nearly the entire territory of the national language. The names of soups form an interesting semantic and word-formational group. The core of these names consists of one-word names with the formants -ice and -ka.
The article deals with the results of dialect correspondence surveys from the beginning of the 1950s that were carried out in the north-eastern and central Bohemian regions and confronts these results with newer data from the Czech Linguistic Atlas. On the basis of several selected dialect phenomena, it shows the continuous decline of the traditional dialect proceeding from the archaic dialect peripheries to the centre of the country. In this way, it depicts the dialect situation on the border of the north-eastern and central Bohemian regions and shows evidence of the transitive character of the central Bohemian dialect region. It contains 5 maps.
The article explores the results of dialect correspondence surveys from the beginning of the 1950s that were carried out in the central and northeastern Bohemian regions and confronts these results with newer data from the Czech Linguistic Atlas. It devotes attention to the analysis of the archaic language situation on the northwestern periphery of the central Bohemian dialectal region, traces the permeation of dialectal phenomena from the neighbouring regions and determines which of these may have led to the territorial delimitation of the Louny-Litomerice peripheral zone.
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