Vowel length in Czech two-syllable words in L1-German speakers

(in English): When learning a second language, besides other things, it's important to acquire its correct pronunciation. In this thesis, I decided to merge my two fields of study, German language and literature and phonetics, and analyse the pronunciation of native German speakers learning Czech as their second language. I decided to focus on the vocal quantity in Czech two-syllable words. Within my experiment, I used recordings of 8 native German speakers reading a Czech text. From these recordings, I extracted the two-syllable words and out of those I created a perception test for native Czech listeners. The listeners' task was to choose the word they heard based on given options and also to mark how difficult it was to decide between the options. Additionally, I carried out an acoustic analysis of vowel duration and extracted the formant values of vowels. The perception test and acoustic analysis confirmed the assumption that native German speakers have problems with quantity in Czech two-syllable words and allowed a clearer understanding of which errors are the most common ones and what is the relationship between the results of objective measurements and perception