Abstract
The current issue of Phonetica Pragensia is published at the occasion of the Institute of Phonetics celebrating the 100th anniversary of its official foundation. The aim of this paper is to provide background to the contributions that follow, namely a historical perspective to the tradition of long-term experimental research set up in Prague by the early phonetic pioneers and continued until today. Drawing primarily on archival materials, the article brings a more detailed account of the constitutive years in comparison to the reviews published so far. It reveals the complexity that is involved in the process of establishing and sustaining a new (phonetics) institute, which might be informative to wider audiences as well.
Highlights
It is unrealistic to expect that a journal article of standard length will provide an in-depth account of the history of an institute stretching 100 years to the past
The current issue of Phonetica Pragensia is published at the occasion of the Institute of Phonetics celebrating the 100th anniversary of its official foundation
The aim of this paper is to provide background to the contributions that follow, namely a historical perspective to the tradition of long-term experimental research set up in Prague by the early phonetic pioneers and continued until today
Summary
It is unrealistic to expect that a journal article of standard length will provide an in-depth account of the history of an institute stretching 100 years to the past. The scope allows for an in-depth look at a single period in such a narrative. It will still be limited: an external history reconstructed from archival materials cannot be presented along with shifts in scientific thought that occurred in a selected timespan or with a detailed analysis of some representative corpus of phonetic research from the period. Comparative phonetics of Czech, French, English and German On French nasals
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