Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2019
Abstract
DIALEKT is the newest specialized corpus of spoken Czech. It contains recordings of Czech dialects, along with two layers of transcripts: a dialectological one and an orthographic one.
It is thus a useful tool for studying the phonetics of Czech dialects. The present article explores four phone-level phenomena in the Northeast Bohemia region, and the lexicalization process they seem to be undergoing.
Remnants of the original bilabial w, in the guise of rounded w and non-syl-labic u̯, are still well-attested in this dialect region, whereas the last vestiges of hard l and hard yare so scarce that they will in all likelihood disappear with the current oldest generation.