Hey all,
after some time without a new update, I decided to let you guys know about the progress in my conlanging class. Since my last post, there have been three lessons.
In the first one on January 18, we talked about (non-)concatenativity with some examples from Tagalog, English, Motu, Indonesian, French and Modern Standard Arabic. At the end of a lesson I gave a quick overview of the Indo-European language family, since my students had told me they'd like summaries of different language families to broaden their linguistic diversity horizon!
In the second lesson on February 01, I decided to skip verbs and move to a more practically relevant unit, namely, Phonology II. I told my students about phone{t,m}ic inventories, symmetry and gaps in such inventories, and then it was their turn to create their first consonant and vowel inventory. They spent the last quarter of the lesson listening to interactive IPA charts, imitating sounds and browsing through Wikipedia to get inspiration. It was very interesting to watch!
In the third and most recent lesson on February 15, we had a special guest — a fellow conlanger and dear friend of mine: Evár. He gave a short presentation on historical conlanging and Indo-European languages, and replied to the students' questions, of which they had a decent amount. After his presentation, I continued with Phonology II and taught them about syllable structure, and that concluded our third lesson.
See you guys next time,
Fiat lingua!