22.2295, FYI: Looking for Academics Interested in Conlanging

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Subject: 22.2295, FYI: Looking for Academics Interested in Conlanging

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Date: 27-May-2011
From: David Peterson [dedalvs at gmail.com]
Subject: Looking for Academics Interested in Conlanging

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Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 14:43:06
From: David Peterson [dedalvs at gmail.com]
Subject: Looking for Academics Interested in Conlanging

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Do you (or does someone you know) use or investigate constructed 
languages [0] in your academic or teaching work [1], or are you an 
academic linguist who also creates languages as a hobby? If so, we'd 
love to hear from you.

The Language Creation Society is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization 
dedicated to promoting, developing, and appreciating constructed 
languages. We are working on compiling an informal public listing of all 
the information out there related to language creation, and could use 
your support.

In this regard, we'd love to hear from or about linguists and other 
academics who work with constructed languages, but would especially 
appreciate links to and/or citations on papers, class syllabi, 
presentations, handouts, etc. that have been used in the past. If you're 
interested in sharing, please contact Sai at <conlangs at saizai.com> 
who's spearheading this project. Once we have a decent-sized list, 
we'll follow up with a link to our listing.

Thanks very much for your time!

David Peterson
LCS President
lcs at conlang.org
www.conlang.org

[0] For a quick overview, please see: http://conlang.org/press.php

[1] Some examples:
* Using language creation as a didactic method to teach (typically)
Linguistics 101 type courses, e.g.:
- Prof. Wells-Jensen (Bowling Green U.):
http://www.fridaynightlinguistics.org/languagecreation/
- Prof. Hardman (U. Florida): 
https://grove.ufl.edu/~hardman/LSFsyllabus.html
- Prof. Bigham (Texas Tech U.):
https://webspace.utexas.edu/bighamds/LIN312/HomeFrameset-3.htm
- Chris Doty (U. Oregon): 
http://www.csdoty.com/courses/conlang/index.html

* Using small/nonce artificial mini-languages to probe (usually
cognitive) linguistics questions, e.g.:
- Drs. Friederici (Max Planck Inst. CogNeuro), Steinhauer (Georgetown
U.), & Pfiefer (MPICN):
http://www.pnas.org/content/99/1/529.long
- Drs. Gómez (Johns Hopkins U.) & Gerken (U. Arizona):
http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~creel/COGS156/COGS156_files/gomezge
rken02.pdf
- Dr. Mintz (U. Southern California):
http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~langdev/Memory%26Cognition_Mintz.pdf

* Investigating the anthropological side of current or historical created 
languages and language creators, e.g.:
- Prof. Higley (U. Rochester):
http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0003/languages.php 
and
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1403976732/conlangorg-20
- Prof. ???????? (Moscow State U.):
http://www.philol.msu.ru/~sidorova/files/conlangs.pdf
- Arika Okrent:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385527888/conlangorg-20 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

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