PT Journal AU Szotkowski, R Dobesova, P TI Research of the Contemporary State of Speech of People Living in the North Moravia SO e-Pedagogium PY 2010 BP 73 EP 82 VL 10 IS 4 DI 10.5507/epd.2010.057 DE Dialect; dialects of the Slezsko region; eastern subset "Ostrava" dialects of Lassko; "Polish-Czech" mixed lane; research AB The contribution deals with the current state of speech in people living in the North Moravia. It is focused specifically on the issue of the Lassko dialect in Ostrava, Karvina which, from the linguistic point of view, includes two sub-dialects of the Silesian dialect (the Eastern-Ostrava subtype and the Polish-Czech mixed lane) having many common characteristics. ER