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A Computational Linguistic Approach to Conlang Research Literature

open access: yesRiCognizioni, 2022
The field of Conlang has evidenced an important growth in the last decades. This has been the product of a wide interest on the use and study of conlangs for artistic purposes.
Simon Gonzalez
doaj   +7 more sources

“We Don’t Understand this Present”: Shimon Adaf’s Shadrach and the Possibilities of Hebrew Language [PDF]

open access: yesYod, 2021
In this article, I wish to present Shimon Adaf’s post‑apocalyptic novella, Shadrach, and the two ways in which it represents Hebrew language: as a memory or relic of the past on one hand, and as a source of constant renewal on the other.
Rina Jean Baroukh
doaj   +3 more sources

Constructed Languages and Translation

open access: yesRiCognizioni, 2022
The main question paper discusses is the question as to how we can make sure that a translation into a conlang is acceptable (adequate, correct) despite the fact that there are by definition no native speakers of conlangs. The question is of relevance to
Pertti Hietaranta
doaj   +3 more sources

A Network Analysis Approach to Conlang Research Literature

open access: yes
The field of conlang has evidenced an important growth in the last decades. This has been the product of a wide interest in the use and study of conlangs for artistic purposes.
Gonzalez, Simon
core   +2 more sources

Constructed Languages as Semantic and Semiotic Systems

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2022
The research aims to explore constructed languages as semantic and semiotic systems by analyzing various types of languages based on their lexical, syntactic, morphological and other features.
Philipp N. Novikov
doaj   +1 more source

Pourquoi les langues non-humaines sont-elles fondamentalement humaines ?

open access: yesReS Futurae, 2022
The conlangs phenomenon have been more and more significant, especially through some very famous fictional languages in science fiction and fantasy. However, not all conlangs are used in stories or associated with a character.
Bettina Beinhoff
doaj   +1 more source

Conlangs as a Goal, Conlangs as a Mean. How to Do Linguistics Inventing Languages

open access: yesRiCognizioni, 2022
Made popular by highly successful cinematographic and television productions, in recent years conlangs have made their appearance also in formal linguistic pedagogy. Similar and mostly unrelated initiatives have surfaced around the world with the common aim to increase students’ interest and motivation in the study of linguistics and enhance their ...
Roberto Merlo   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Alien Sounds

open access: yesRiCognizioni, 2022
Klingon, a ConLang created for the Star Trek franchise in 1984 by the linguist Marc Okrand, is the subject of this study, which analyzes both its phonology and lexicon.
Chiara Meluzzi
doaj   +1 more source

Ludic linguistics: a revisited taxonomy of fictional constructed language design approach for video games [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Linguistic research on fictional constructed language (conlang) in video game dominantly employs an approach mimetically designed for fictions and films namely a priori and a posteriori.
Diah Kristina,   +3 more
core   +3 more sources

Direct and indirect evidence of compression of word lengths. Zipf's law of abbreviation revisited [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Zipf's law of abbreviation, the tendency of more frequent words to be shorter, is one of the most solid candidates for a linguistic universal, in the sense that it has the potential for being exceptionless or with a number of exceptions that is ...
Bentz, Chris   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

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