George talks a little about little tidbits of his daughter’s linguistic development, and talks about how listening to child language might help conlangers find inspiration. http://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/ConlangeryShort31.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: RSS
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Margaret Ransdell-Green and Eric Barker come on to talk about the music they created for Margaret’s concultures in the world of Aeniith, which they performed at LCC8. Top of Show Greeting: Muipidan http://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery143.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: RSS
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George brings on Christophe and Joey to talk about their experience at the Eighth Language Creation Conference. We also have clips from interviews Joey made at the conference. Top of Show Greeting: Bizhida http://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery141.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: RSS
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George and William invite Prof. William Croft to talk about his theoretical approach to word classes and constructions. Forget a language without adjectives, let’s talk about how your property concepts are predicated! http://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery140.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: RSS
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George spends some time talking about his recent revisions of his Istatikii grammar, with a focus on organizing writing to serve the needs of the language and the readers. You will find the two drafts of the Istatikii consonant processes below. Script below the fold, see the history here. http://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/ConlangeryShort30.mp3Podcast: Play in new window |… Read more »
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Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets joins us to talk to us about Ainu, a minority language of northern Japan. Top of Show Greeting: Bwángxùd by alr2569 (Translation Notes) Links and Resources: Japan’s new policy on the Ainu is misleading A Topical Dictionary of Conversational Ainu Bugaeva, A. (2004). Grammar and folklore texts of the Chitose dialect of Ainu:… Read more »
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Jessie Sams comes on the show to talk to us about how she uses conlanging in the classroom. We discuss how these courses can be designed, what fields of linguistics they address well, and the results she saw from the course. Jessie also requested the following message be added to the notes: I would also… Read more »
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George and William come back to talk about telicity and lexical aspect. Listen to us talk about endpoints in events and puzzle over why achievement and accomplishment are supposed to mean different things. http://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery137.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: RSS
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Colm Doyle comes on to talk about his Nymeran language, created for the comic series Glow, as well as some of the process and challenges of making a conlang and script for comics. Top of Show Greeting: Vaq’ǫ̀ʔ Nąśą /vàqʼõ̀ʔ nã̀ʃã́/ Glow issue 2 Kickstarter http://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery136.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: RSS
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Joey Windsor and Christophe Grandsire-Koevets join George to discuss what tools we can get from more advanced linguistics theoretical frameworks. What tools do they provide the conlanger, and where do you have to be careful about applying them. Top of Show Greeting: Gidurguyt [ɡɪ-ərdɡuː-jɪt] LCC Presentations: Doug Ball’s Talk Unfortunately, the video of Joey’s talk… Read more »
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