PT Journal AU Kalova, K TI Acoustic Analysis of Vowels of Native Speakers SO Bohemica Olomucensia PY 2017 BP 152 EP 163 VL 9 IS 2 DI 10.5507/bo.2017.025 DE acoustic analysis; monophtongs; diphtongs; vowel quality; vowel quantity AB The subject of this paper paper is to analyze and characterize Czech vowels and diphtongs in terms of acoustic quality and acoustic quantity. Acoustic analysis inspects ten speakers chosen from two Czech corpora of spoken language. Recorded values of formant and quantity analysis were compared with traditional and new reference values of Czech vowel formants and results of vowel quantity analysis were compared with reference values of vowel quantity. ER