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Re: book on musical languages



> From:          John Chalmers <non12@DELTANET.COM>

> 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