Louis Rhys

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19	Why do we have interest in (dying) language preservation?
16	What are some alternatives to Chomskian generative grammar?
15	Why did early Indo-European languages seem to be morphologically complex?
15	Can Modern Hebrew be considered an Indo-European language?
14	Why does speech speed seem to vary between different languages?

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+10	When and how did French become a non-null-subject language?
+5	Is there a well-established metric to measure the effectiveness of a parsing algorithm?
+5	How is definiteness expressed in languages with no definite article, clitic or affix?
+5	Why do most words for “mother”, across languages, start with an [m], and for “father” with [p]/[b], but not vice versa?

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14	What makes a non-native English speaker sound foreign?
13	Is the seeming relation between the sound /n/ and negativity purely coincidental?
8	What is it called when a word is constructed out of a language, but is not a part of that language?
8	What are the different ways in which languages express the notion of passivity?
8	Are there different terms for when a language has two ways to spell a sound vs. two ways to pronounce a spelling?

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20 terminology × 5	14 morphology × 5
19 phonetics × 6	14 language-acquisition × 3
19 syntax × 4	14 accent
19 english × 2	14 language-competence

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