Teaching linguistic methods with conlangs

Abstract

In this article, I show from my own experience as a linguistics teacher that the construction of languages by students allows them to better grasp the reality of linguistic analysis than does the repetition of exercises based on data from natural languages. I show that the reasons that lead me to marginalize natural languages from teaching are the same ones that lead most linguists to marginalize constructed languages from research.

Keywords

• Constructed languages
• Phonology
• Diachronic linguistics
• Natural Languages
• Natlang
• Linguistic Analysis