PT Journal AU Polachova, P TI Realisation of Czech vowels in reading of Francophone speakers SO Bohemica Olomucensia PY 2023 BP 92 EP 121 VL 15 IS 2 DI 10.5507/bo.2023.021 DE Czech as a foreign language; Pronunciation; Phonetic analysis; Czech vowels; French vowels AB The present study focuses on the acoustic analysis of spoken Czech of Francophone speak- ers and focuses on the realization of vowels (which were measured and evaluated using the Praat program). The background material for the analysis were audio-recordings of loud Czech reading by 50 students studying Czech with French as a mother tongue. The analysis shows that the realization of Czech vowels is influenced by negative transfer from the native language, which decreases with higher language level. ER