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I'm a PhD candidate in linguistics. My areas of interest include language documentation, Tibeto-Burman linguistics, gesture, LOLspeak, evidentiality and making bad puns. I often blog at www.superlinguo.com

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16	Do some languages have articles besides the definite and indefinite articles?
14	Languages with a 12th Basic Color Term
11	Are there any sino-tibetan languages that don't have an isolating morphology?
10	Are first words in signed languages composed of signs that babies frequently babble?
7	Is Nicaraguan Sign Language the only language born from nothing?

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+10	Why do most words for “mother”, across languages, start with an [m], and for “father” with [p]/[b], but not vice versa?
+10	Vocabulary Comparisons Across Languages
+10	Languages with a 12th Basic Color Term
+10	Are there any sino-tibetan languages that don't have an isolating morphology?

2 Questions

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9	Has there been any research into the phonetics of ventriloquism?
8	The relationship between “orange” the colour and “orange” the fruit

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22 linguistic-universals × 4	11 morphology
21 sign-languages × 3	10 psycholinguistics × 3
20 language-acquisition × 4	8 theoretical-linguistics × 2
16 articles	7 phonetics × 3
11 phonology × 5	7 terminology × 2