Royal Skousen

Royal Skousen

Royal Skousen (born August 5, 1945), a professor of linguistics and English at Brigham Young University, is mainly known as the editor of the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project and as the founder of the Analogical Modeling approach to language modeling.

Royal Skousen was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He received a B.A. degree from Brigham Young University, with a major in English and a minor in mathematics. Skousen went on to study linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, there earning his Ph.D. degree in 1972. He has also held the position of assistant professor at the University of Texas. He is the older brother of libertarian author Mark Skousen and survivalist/economist author Joel Skousen. He is the nephew of conservative author Cleon Skousen.

External links

* [http://linguistics.byu.edu/skousenr.php Royal Skousen's homepage at the university of Brigham Young]


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