Prague Institute Language School

The Prague Institute Language School, also known as the Prague School of Linguistics, was established in the heart of Europe, in Prague, Czech Republic. The school was founded by Vilém Mathesius in the mid-1920s, marking nearly a century of service in the field of linguistics. The school’s primary function is to provide a platform for linguistic thought and analysis. It has been most active during the 1920s and '30s, contributing significantly to the field of linguistics. The school is renowned for its work on phonology and has distinguished itself in the study of sound systems. It has developed distinctive-feature analysis of sounds, where each distinctive sound in a language is seen as composed of a number of contrasting articulatory and acoustic features. The target audience of th...