I would say that 70-80% of what I know about linguistics comes from conlanging. Sure, the basics come up in school, both in literature and foreign language classes but there they are muddied by all the exceptions that real life languages have. In conlanging, we can apply linguistic concepts in their pure form and experiment with them.
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100% yes. A few things I've learned with conlanging:
- how information density works in practice
- why there's no such thing as a fusional equivalent for case stacking
- how vertical vowel systems appear
- what exactly natural languages like Kaingang are doing with nasal allophony; e.g. /d/ as [d n͜d d͜n d]
- how consonants affect your pitch in a non-tonal language, and how to use it for tonogenesis
It definitely helps, it helped me understand various linguistic concepts and it led me to learning the IPA, which is a HUGE help for learning languages, especially when figuring out how to make new sounds.
Definitely! I applied much of my conlanging knowledge when learning German.
Es hat mir sehr geholfen!