The field of conlang has evidenced an important growth in the last decades. This has been the product of a wide interest in the use and study of conlangs for artistic purposes. However, one important question is what it is happening with conlang in the academic world. This paper aims to have an overall understanding of the literature on conlang research. With this we aim to give a realistic picture of the field in present days. We have implemented a computational linguistic approach, combining bibliometrics and network analysis to examine all publications available in the Scopus database. Analysing over 2300 academic publications since 1927 until 2022, we have found that Esperanto is by far the most documented conlang. Three main authors have contributed to this: Garv\'ia R., Fiedler S., and Blanke D. The 1970s and 1980s have been the decades where the foundations of current research have been built. In terms of methodologies, language learning and experimental linguistics are the ones contributing to most to the preferred approaches of study in the field. We present the results and discuss our limitations and future work.
翻译:人工语言领域在过去几十年中呈现出显著增长,这主要源于艺术创作中对人工语言使用与研究的广泛兴趣。然而,一个重要问题是人工语言在学术界的发展现状如何。本文旨在全面理解人工语言研究领域的文献概况,从而客观呈现该领域的当前图景。我们采用计算语言学方法,结合文献计量学与网络分析技术,对Scopus数据库中所有相关出版物进行系统考察。通过分析1927年至2022年间2300余篇学术文献,发现世界语是目前文献记载最丰富的人工语言。该领域主要归功于三位核心学者:Garvía R.、Fiedler S.和Blanke D.的研究贡献。1970至1980年代是奠定当前研究基础的关键时期。在方法论层面,语言习得与实验语言学构成了该领域最主要的研究范式。本文呈现具体分析结果,并讨论研究的局限性与未来方向。