Re: Teaching linguistics through conlanging

Hi!

Estel Telcontar <estel_telcontar@...> writes:
>...
> One of my profs here at the University of Calgary uses the construction
> of a mini-conlang to teach children about linguistics.  ...
> ...  Apparently the kids really enjoy it.
I can imagine that.  Especially regarding the age, I think those
children are caught when many of them regularly invent (probably
mostly trivial) conlangs/secret languges, etc.  It seems very nice to
get them thinking about the abstract possibilities that exist in
encoding language.

**Henrik

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