Nationality American Role Professor | Name Royal Skousen Occupation Linguistics Professor | |
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Full Name Royal Jon Skousen Relatives W. Cleon Skousen (Uncle)Mark Skousen (Brother)Joel Skousen (Brother) Siblings Joel Skousen, Mark Skousen Books Analysis of Textual Variants, Analogical modeling of langua, Analogy and structure, Substantive evidence in phonology | ||
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Royal Jon Skousen (; born August 5, 1945) 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" and the founder of the analogical modeling approach to language modeling.
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- Royal skousen the original and printer s manuscripts book of mormon lecture 1 of 3
- Royal skousen the printed editions book of mormon lecture 2 of 3
- Biography
- Family
- Publications
- References
Royal skousen the printed editions book of mormon lecture 2 of 3
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. Leroy was a younger brother to W. Cleon Skousen. Royal graduated from Sunset High School in Beaverton, Oregon. After his father's unexpected death from lung cancer in 1964 (though he never smoked), Skousen served as a missionary in Finland from 1965 to 1967. He is fluent in Finnish.
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. In 1999, BYU presented him the Karl G. Maeser Excellence in Research and Creative Arts Awards.
Since 1999, Skousen has served as the president of the Utah Association of Scholars, an affiliate of the National Association of Scholars. He has also been associate editor of the Journal of Quantitative Linguistics since 2003.
Family
Skousen married Sirkku Unelma Härkönen in 1968. They had seven children and lived in Orem, Utah. 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.