This book provides the first systematic description of the linguistic accommodation of Moravian
migrants in Bohemia. By analyzing the linguistic behaviour of 39 university students from
different parts of Moravia living at a hall of residence in Prague the author investigates
part of an unsubstantiated and ideologically motivated dialect contact hypothesis according to
which in informal everyday communication Moravians in Bohemia accommodate not in the direction
of the standard dialect but to Common Czech a non-standard interdialect that is spoken
throughout Bohemia. The study combines a quantitative analysis of six linguistic variables with
an ethnographic study of informants' linguistic and social behaviour. A primary objective of
the study is to identify the impact of various social criteria on informants' acquisition of
Common Czech forms.
