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What Non-Austronesian languages have a linker or ligature?

ligature linker

answered 7 hours ago user6726 45k

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LING tree structure [closed]

syntax syntax-trees

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Is the connection between 'right' in the sense of direction and concepts like 'correct' limited to Indo-European languages?

etymology semantics indo-european

answered 12 hours ago PLL 111

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Raised object vs. Subordinate subject (I didn't want 'Kim' mistreating my cat)

syntax english grammatical-subject raising

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Italian: is there an authoritative word frequency list?

reference-request italian

modified 17 hours ago vectory 1,214

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What is wrong with this way of looking at conjunctions?

conjunctions

modified 23 hours ago Tim Osborne 3,933

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Are there languages with contrasting unvoiced aspirated, unaspirated, and ejective stops?

ejectives stops plosives

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Languages with a three-way distinction between voiced, aspirated, and unaspirated stops

consonants voicing stops aspiration

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Why do the equivalents of “moody” in other Germanic languages mean “courageous”?

english cognates

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Have we observed classes changing from open to closed, or vice versa?

language-change parts-of-speech

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Was the Thai letter ด really derived from ต?

writing-systems thai

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Why are the orthographies of Ancient/Proto Languages so Impractical?

orthography proto-indo-european sumerian

modified 2 days ago Draconis 31.9k

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What is phonological mechanism?

phonology terminology

modified 2 days ago jk - Reinstate Monica 16.7k

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What is the difference in a constituent and a phrase?

syntax syntax-trees phrase-structure constituents constituency

modified 2 days ago Tim Osborne 3,933

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Does my fictional use of Arabic honorifics match real-word usage?

arabic titles

asked 2 days ago Tom Hosker 465

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Compositional semantic: Type of conjunctions

semantics coordination type-theory

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Hebrew elohim meaning [closed]

hebrew

asked Mar 27 at 2:55 shlomo shetrit 1

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Learning alot of languages can hurt your native language communication skills?

discourse-analysis multilingualism bilingualism varieties

asked Mar 27 at 1:29 Henrique 21

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Labialised /r/ in RP

english phonology phonetics consonants

modified Mar 26 at 22:42 curiousdannii 4,471

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Why does it seem that all Proto-Germanic words have PIE roots?

proto-indo-european proto-germanic

answered Mar 26 at 22:10 vectory 1,214

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When do we use strong /biː/ instead of weak /bi/ in english?

phonology

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Is there a relatively systematic way to converter from pinyin to Sino Vietnamese words (Hán Việt) or vice versa?

pronunciation chinese vietnamese romanization

modified Mar 26 at 11:17 legatrix 406

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save all file in window objects praat

praat

modified Mar 26 at 1:00 Community♦ 1

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What Rhymes with WARM? [closed]

pronunciation american-english

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Can we make a case for PIE-Tunguso-Ainu-Korean numerals for one and two?

proto-indo-european numerals reconstruction altaic-hypothesis

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Is it possible to have a word-based language completely without word inflection?

linguistic-typology writing-systems inflection isolating-languages

modified Mar 25 at 14:16 curiousdannii 4,471

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Why does capitalization exist?

writing-systems

modified Mar 25 at 10:05 jk - Reinstate Monica 16.7k

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What can these verbs be called as a group?

verbs vocabulary lexicon collocations

modified Mar 25 at 9:01 Community♦ 1

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How did they revive the phonology of Hebrew and get people to speak it?

hebrew

answered Mar 24 at 13:56 Tristan 61

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American production of /ɾ/ in other languages

english phonetics

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What are the differences between “controlled natural language” and “toy grammar”?

terminology

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Oral posture and articulatory settings

phonetics

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Proto-Indo-European words for moon?

semantics proto-indo-european cognates

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Need speech corpora for stop-vowel (CV, CVC and VCV) for acoustic phonetics research

phonetics corpora stops

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Buy one free one

parts-of-speech

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What is the difference between assertive and non-assertive words?

semantics pragmatics words

answered Mar 23 at 5:39 Dan Absolon 1

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Convert a non projective dependency tree to a projective one

parsing dependency-grammar dependency

modified Mar 23 at 3:39 Tim Osborne 3,933

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Name That Phenomenon: I worry that once I STOP doing an action “just to be safe,” the thing I'm being safe from will occur

english terminology

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What is the difference between /iə/ and /ɪə/ in /məˈtɪəriəl/ “material” (RP)?

phonology

modified Mar 22 at 21:46 ewawe 12.9k

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How to find most common expressions starting with “iron”?

computational-linguistics vocabulary research tools collocations

answered Mar 22 at 17:04 Laurel 390

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Questionnaire for Spanish speakers [closed]

spanish linguistic-universals

modified Mar 22 at 12:05 Anshul 1

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What is the maximum possible number of formants?

phonetics formants

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Errors in my linguistics textbook

english

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Unusual sentence grouping with conjunctions

conjunctions

answered Mar 21 at 17:41 Tim Osborne 3,933

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Parent–child kinship terms for same- or different-sex relationships

vocabulary kinship-terms

modified Mar 21 at 17:04 Miztli 1,042

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What are some of the most prefixing languages?

morphology linguistic-typology affixes morphological-typology

modified Mar 21 at 16:58 Miztli 1,042

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Can you help identify a strange Devanagari symbol in a book that doesn't look like any Devanagari letters? [closed]

sanskrit

modified Mar 21 at 16:43 Miztli 1,042

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Do the DRESS vowel (/e/) and SQUARE vowel (/ɛː/) have the same vowel quality in contemporary RP?

english phonetics pronunciation

modified Mar 21 at 14:41 Miztli 1,042

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