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. Events 642 - Battle of Maserfield - Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Bernicia. Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar Linguistics is the scientific study of Language, encompassing a number of sub-fields English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States Analogical modeling (hereafter AM is a formal theory of Exemplar-based analogical reasoning proposed by Royal Skousen, professor of Linguistics and English language

Royal Skousen was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Cleveland is a City in the US state of Ohio and the County seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state Ohio ( is a Midwestern state of the United States. As part of the Great Lakes region, Ohio has long been a cultural and geographical crossroads He received a B.A. degree from Brigham Young University, with a major in English and a minor in mathematics. Mathematics is the body of Knowledge and Academic discipline that studies such concepts as Quantity, Structure, Space and Skousen went on to study linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, there earning his Ph.D. degree in 1972. This article is about the flagship campus For other uses and locations of University of Illinois, see University of Illinois (disambiguation The University of "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. 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. Mark Skousen (born 1947) is an American Economist, Investment analyst, Newsletter editor, college professor Survivalism is a commonly used term for the Preparedness strategy and subculture of individuals or groups anticipating and making preparations for future possible disruptions Joel M Skousen is an American conservative political scientist Non-fiction Survivalist author and retreat consultant that specializes in preparedness He is the nephew of conservative author Cleon Skousen. Willard Cleon Skousen ( January 20, 1913 - January 9, 2006) was a conservative author political commentator and academic

External links

• Royal Skousen's homepage at the university of Brigham Young