Artificial Languages
A constructed language (sometimes called a conlang) is a language whose phonology, grammar, and vocabulary, instead of having developed naturally, are consciously devised. Constructed languages may also be referred to as artificial languages, planned languages or invented languages and in some cases, fictional languages. Planned languages are languages that have been purposefully designed. They are the result of deliberate controlling intervention, thus of a form of language planning.There are many possible reasons to create a constructed language, such as to ease human communication (see international auxiliary language and code); to give fiction or an associated constructed setting an added layer …
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Alberta Teachers' Association · 25 May 2018 English
Although direction was given to the researchers to establish parameters for the task, the content of this document reflects the writers’ perspectives on topics and subjects reviewed and does not …
experiments in which participants learned artificial languages, three groups of adult learners participated … of either English-like or Mandarin-like artificial languages to a picture. The result showed that bilinguals …
CHB: Coach House Books · 2009 English
The word 'eunoia,' which literally means 'beautiful thinking'’ is the shortest word in English that contains all five vowels. Directly inspired by the Oulipo (l'Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle), a French …
MemorialAward for Best Poetic Debut. Bök has created artificial languages for two television shows: Gene Roddenberry’s …
UBC: UBC Press · 1 November 2008 English
A two-edged sword of reconciliation and betrayal, Chinook Jargon (aka Wawa) arose at the interface of ?Indian? and ?White? societies in the Pacific Northwest. Wawa?s sources lie first in the …
jargon or pidgin or any lan- guage; the artificial languages devised over the last few centuries are …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 5 April 2004 English
Donald Davidson's work is of seminal importance in the development of the analytic tradition following Quine. His views on the nature of language, mind, and action occupy a prominent position …
are familiar from discussions of simple artificial languages, such as the language of first-order logic …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2003 English
Ever since Kripke and others developed a semantic interpretation for modal logic, "possible worlds" has become a much debated issue in contemporary metaphysics.
moment, we assume that logics are independent artificial languages with carefully stipu- lated syntax, proof … of the language. Logics are not the only artificial languages. Programming languages for computing, for … example, are also artificial lan- guages. Artificial languages relate to ordinary languages in the same … translating from a natural language to the artificial languages of formal logic. Although translation is … definitions. We return to this in §1.5. Artificial languages usually give expression to a very restricted …
UTP: University of Toronto Press · 2003 English
Two problems continually arise in the sciences and humanities, according to Mario Bunge: parts and wholes and the origin of novelty. In Emergence and Convergence, he works to address these …
'natural' languages, such as English, and 'artificial languages,' such as predicate logic (when used as …
UOP: University of Ottawa Press · 1 January 1996 English
By delving into the history and envelopment of logic from its beginnings to the modern era, George Englebretsen rehabilitates term logic and demonstrates that an enhanced traditional logic remains a …
universal language, mental language, and artificial languages can be traced back in part to these earlier …
UTP: University of Toronto Press · 1996 English
As Jean-Pierre Duquet (1982) wrote, 'with the appearance of this work, exactly one century of the traditional Quebec novel comes to a close; the rural novel, the novel of the …
who are incapable of changing it, whereas artificial languages can be constructed and manipu- lated by …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 1 January 1973 English
This explicitly analytic presentation of the theme in turn meant not only that there were bound to be differences between the ways in which it is for the most part …
discipline of formal logic. The essentially artificial languages within which these operate make it possible …
