Mluvená čeština v Praze a Brně: sonda do mluvených korpusů
Spoken Czech in Prague and Brno: A probe into spoken corpora

Summary/Abstract: This article examines selected variations in spoken Czech in two sub-corpora of the Czech National Corpus: the Prague Spoken Corpus (PSC) and the Brno Spoken Corpus (BSC). These include the prothetic <i>v-</i> at the beginning of words starting with <i>o-</i>, variations in case endings of hard stem adjectives and the third person indicative plural endings in major verb classes, as well as the usage of the personal pronoun <i>já</i> and/or the auxiliary verb <i>jsem</i> in the past tense forms. Our interpretation of changes in apparent time is checked against data from the relevant literature. The most significant change is the decline of the prothetic v- in the BSC, reported for Brno earlier by Krčmová (1981, 1997). We show that it is female speakers who are leading this change. The PSC informal speech is stable, while a significant shift toward colloquial variants has been identified in formal discourse. In the past tense, the form without the auxiliary <i>jsem</i> is rare except for <i>já myslel(a)</i> in the PSC.

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