Bowling Green State University
423 East Hall
Bowling Green, Ohio 43403
(419) 372-8935
But email is better!
swellsj AT bgsu.edu
Teaching and research interests (alphabetically, for lack of a better order): applied phonology, astrobiology, braille, disability studies, language creation, language preservation, phonetics, psycholinguistics, speech production (especially slips of the tongue), and xenolinguistics.
I am on the board of METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence) International. This used to be called 'active SETI', and the questions it generates are complex and important.
The Slips Pages: My accessible (and hopefully at least moderately amusing) introduction to slips of the tongue. Mostly safe for work ... but not always.
A growing resource of Language Analysis Problems, some with answers posted and some without. The editing varies on these pages, but they range from classroom activities to problems in morphology and syntax, some with constructed languages and some with natural language. Feel free to use them with attribution, and I'd enjoy hearing what you think.
Oroha is an endangered language spoken in a small village on the Solomon Islands. The site shows the current grammatical sketch of the language and the growing dictionary.
My band: The Grande Royale Ükulelists of the Black Swamp
Just for musical fun: The Braille Song, performed by Innocuous Mustard, featuring Perkins Brailler percussion.
Xenolinguistics, a BGSU class taught in 2001.