The topic of this thesis is phonetics, a discipline studying sounds and their articulation as well as connecting and categorising them into higher semantical units. The thesis touches upon the theory of phonetics, namely an overview of sounds in Slovene and Polish, an outline of the history of phonetics and descriptions of speech production and typical speech errors that occur during pronunciation of vowels and consonants. In its practical part, the thesis focuses on sound recordings of under- and postgraduate students of Polish studies at the University of Ljubljana. Analysing Polish vowels, the attention is turned to speech errors and what could be causing them, e. g. articulation of [y], pronunciation of nasal vowels »ą« and »ę«, tendency towards [y] or [e] reduction, pronunciation of [u̯], [v], [u] and diphthongs »au« and »eu«.
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