Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 23:05:39 -0500 (EST) with NJE id 2376 for CONLANG@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 11:27:24 -0500 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.33) Message-ID: <7C3134823@mail-gw.uclan.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 16:20:43 GMT+0 Reply-To: Constructed Languages List Sender: Constructed Languages List From: And Rosta Organization: University of Central Lancashire Subject: Re: book on musical languages To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG Status: O X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 591 X-From-Space-Date: Thu Nov 13 23:05:52 1997 X-From-Space-Address: owner-conlang@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU > From: John Chalmers > I was in the library today reading back issues of Nature and saw a > brief notice of this book, which looked as if it might interest other > conlangers as Swain explicitly mentions artificial languages. > Publication is scheduled for this month. > > Musical Languages, Joseph P. Swain, Norton, 1997. > conlangs, tonal languages, musical structure. Does the notice actually say "conlangs"? I ask because the term was invented by the community of subscribers to this list, & I wonder whether it might have caught on elsewhere.... --And