Fill in the Blanks The Prague SchoolOnline version It's about a simple introduction about the Prague School by Fatima Vazquez 1 purposes Saussure colloquial Czechoslovakia approach acquired components paradigmatic Prague linguistics founded stress standard between Prince language words As early as 1911 in , and independently of and Jakobson , Vilém Mathesius ( 1882 - 1945 ) a non - historical to . The School looked at the structural as they contributed to the entire . There was a need for a language once Czechoslovakia had independence , and Czech had the curiosity of being very different in its and literary forms . Nikolai Trubetzkoy ( 1890 - 1938 ) investigated relations phonemes and classified functions on the they served ? keeping apart , signalling , etc .