Royal Skousen
Royal J. Skousen | |
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Born | Royal Jon Skousen August 5, 1945 Cleveland, Ohio |
Nationality | American |
Education | Brigham Young University (B.A.) in English University of Illinois (PhD) in Linguistics |
Occupation | Linguistics Professor |
Relatives | W. Cleon Skousen (Uncle) Mark Skousen (Brother) Joel Skousen (Brother) |
Royal Jon Skousen[1] (born August 5, 1945)[2] is a professor of linguistics and English at Brigham Young University (BYU), where he is editor of the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project. He is "the leading expert on the textual history of the Book of Mormon"[3] and the founder of the analogical modeling approach to language modeling.
Biography
Skousen was born in Cleveland, Ohio to Leroy Bentley Skousen and Helen Louise Skousen, a Latter-day Saint (LDS or Mormon) family, and was one of eleven children.[4] Leroy was a younger brother to W. Cleon Skousen.[5] Royal graduated from Sunset High School in Beaverton, Oregon. After his father's unexpected death from lung cancer in 1964 (though he never smoked),[5] Skousen served as a missionary in Finland[6] from 1965 to 1967.[7] He is fluent in Finnish.[2]
Skousen received his B.A. degree from BYU, 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 was then an assistant professor of linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin until 1979, when he joined the faculty of BYU. Skousen was also a visiting professor at the University of California, San Diego in 1981, a Fulbright lecturer at the University of Tampere in Finland in 1982, and a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, Netherlands in 2001.[2] In 1999, BYU presented him the Karl G. Maeser Excellence in Research and Creative Arts Awards.[8]
Since 1999, Skousen has served as the president of the Utah Association of Scholars, an affiliate of the National Association of Scholars.[2][9] He has also been associate editor of the Journal of Quantitative Linguistics since 2003.[2]
Family
Skousen married Sirkku Unelma Härkönen in 1968.[2] They had seven children and lived in Orem, Utah.[7] They now live in Spanish Fork, Utah.
Skousen is the oldest in a family of eight brothers and two sisters. His parents, Leroy Bentley Skousen and Helen Louise McCarty Skousen, are deceased.
Publications
- Books
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- Articles and papers
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Notes
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External links
- Articles with hCards
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- 1945 births
- 20th-century Mormon missionaries
- American Latter Day Saints
- American linguists
- American Mormon missionaries in Finland
- American academics of English literature
- Brigham Young University alumni
- Brigham Young University faculty
- Fulbright Scholars
- Living people
- Phonologists
- People from Beaverton, Oregon
- People from Cleveland, Ohio
- People from Orem, Utah
- Psycholinguists
- University of California, San Diego faculty
- University of Illinois alumni
- People from Spanish Fork, Utah
- National Association of Scholars
- Sunset High School (Beaverton, Oregon) alumni