Moravians in Prague: A Sociolinguistic Study of Dialect Contact in the Czech Republic - Prague Papers on Language, Society and Interaction / Prager Arbeiten zur Sprache, Gesellschaft und Interaktion New edition

Provides the systematic description of the linguistic accommodation of Moravian migrants in Bohemia. This book combines a quantitative analysis of six linguistic variables with an ethnographic study of informants' linguistic and social behaviour. It identifies the impact of various social criteria on informants' acquisition of Common Czech forms.