MatthewMartin

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I'm a programmer by day and an amateur linguist by night.

I organize the Arlington Linguistics Book Club, where we read a wide variety of books that make the science of linguistic accessible to a popular audience.

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18 Answers

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10	How could one generate gibberish that mimics a specific language?
9	Language acquisition without interactive contact with fluent speakers
8	Do signed languages undergo the same processes of change that the spoken ones do?
7	Are there any “simple” languages?
7	What is LOLspeak, and does it have equivalents in languages other than English?

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+20	Why are some linguists and other people very much against conlangs?
+10	Is there a term in linguistics for underdeveloped number systems?
+10	What is LOLspeak, and does it have equivalents in languages other than English?
+10	What language takes the longest to text?

10 Questions

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23	How do I format an interlinear gloss for HTML?
19	What method do linguists use to rate language competence?
9	How exactly does an obviate proximate system work?
8	How can adjective-noun order in French be explained by parameter theory?
7	What are the alternate morphological typologies to isolating, agglutinative, fusional, polysyntehtic, etc.?

48 Tags

14 language-change × 3	9 language-acquisition × 2
11 constructed-language × 4	9 psycholinguistics
10 sign-languages × 2	8 grammar × 3
10 phonotactics	7 historical-linguistics × 2
10 phonology	7 evolution