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Is meaning prescribed?

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What are External and Internal language?

terminology psycholinguistics

answered 3 hours ago DaJudge 1

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How do non-English speakers perceive English /b d g/?

phonology

answered 4 hours ago user6726 63.1k

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Is there a database or standard (ISO etc.) which maps Unicode or ISO-15924 scripts with the ISO-639/Glottolog etc. languages that use them

comparative-linguistics writing-systems datasets standards

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Derivation of Passive according to Principles and Parameters (Jaeggli)

syntax generative-grammar passive principles-and-parameters

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Is there any real phonemic distinction between semivowels and their vocalic counterparts?

phonology semivowels

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How can I cut several sound files using a script?

praat

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What is the semantic meaning of 'someone' and 'anyone'? [closed]

semantics

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Categorizing "r" sonorants in (rhotic) English

phonetics

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Are there any equivalent of oxforddictionaries.com/definition/ in Arabic?

arabic dictionary resource-request online-resources

answered 2 days ago LISA 263

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What is this fable's narrator's name? [closed]

bosnian-croatian-serbian

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Question about writing effective experimental prompts

pragmatics field-linguistics dialog-acts conversational-maxims

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What are the semantic connections between interrogative and indefinite pronouns in many languages"?

pronouns

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Origin of بطريق

latin greek arabic aramaic

answered Jan 17 at 21:25 user6726 63.1k

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What is the difference between "or" and "either...or"?

syntax semantics

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What are the disadvantages of Abugida writing systems?

orthography

modified Jan 17 at 11:55 Alan 1

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How can we know if two names which have the same referent have the same meaning or different meanings?

semantics

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Syntactic tree: X bar theory, DPs [closed]

syntax syntax-trees generative-grammar x-bar-theory tense-aspect-mood

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VerbNet semantic roles and preposition groups - how to determine matches

computational-linguistics semantics verbnet

modified Jan 17 at 5:00 CommunityBot 1

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Why did English stop using thou?

english historical-linguistics pronouns formality

answered Jan 16 at 23:38 Sander G 1

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Difference between discourse analysis and pragmatics

pragmatics discourse

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Phonetics of labiodental / bilabial consonant cluster

phonetics

answered Jan 15 at 17:23 user6726 63.1k

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Is the Word solatium related To the Word Solis [closed]

etymology

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Can anyone identify the languages in this video? [closed]

theoretical-linguistics translation

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How a learner of a polysynthetic language like Arapaho would use an electronic or printed dictionary?

dictionary tools agglutinative-languages polysynthesis

answered Jan 13 at 19:09 user6726 63.1k

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Is there a source for English prefixes and suffixes? and English Morphology?

morphology reference-request resource-request affixes morphemes

modified Jan 13 at 13:47 jk - Reinstate Monica 24.3k

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Order the child [migrated]

meaning

asked Jan 13 at 12:40 Златка Гочева 1

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Computer generated/aided glossing

machine-translation tools interlinear-gloss

modified Jan 13 at 8:03 CommunityBot 1

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How does r-coloring impact phonological analysis?

ipa phonemes rhotics

answered Jan 13 at 1:31 brass tacks 15.8k

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Controlling for semantic shift/change in a dataset

semantics language-change

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Etymology of words in English translations

english etymology translation

modified Jan 12 at 17:42 jk - Reinstate Monica 24.3k

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Does "Inchoative Construction" mean constructions with intransitive inchoative verbs?

syntax english verbs

modified Jan 12 at 15:06 Buffoon 377

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How to count the number of unique words (lemmas) in a Russian text?

morphology resource-request russian

modified Jan 11 at 11:20 Isa 123

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How do Sumerian cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphs differ?

writing-systems writing cuneiform egyptian sumerian

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What are the most popular theories of names among contemporary linguists? [closed]

names

asked Jan 10 at 6:37 Rando McRandom 1

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Is Baron Hoffman correct — "The meaning of words is a matter of dictionaries and grammars"?

meaning

answered Jan 9 at 17:33 user6726 63.1k

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Word meaning as function of the composition of its phonemes

phonology semantics psycholinguistics lexical-semantics cognitive-linguistics

modified Jan 9 at 12:34 user36329 1

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Does lying violate the maxim of quality?

pragmatics conversational-maxims

modified Jan 9 at 11:23 curiousdannii♦ 5,344

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Can we build semantic mappings for CFG same as we do in CCG?

syntax semantics grammar-formalism formal-semantics

modified Jan 9 at 8:04 CommunityBot 1

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What are the stress-distinguished minimal pairs in English?

english phonology resource-request phonemes stress

modified Jan 8 at 17:02 CommunityBot 1

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Plural form declension with numbers in Turkish

turkish declension

modified Jan 7 at 19:34 Adam Bittlingmayer 6,733

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Where can one find reconstructed vocalizations for (any stage of) Egyptian?

reference-request egyptian

modified Jan 7 at 16:29 Draconis♦ 48.8k

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Frequency of non-legal name preference

names

answered Jan 7 at 16:26 user6726 63.1k

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What are the sounds that define the r-controlled vowels?

english ipa pronunciation american-english rhotics

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Do a classification of words with two or more stressed syllables exist?

phonology syllables stress phonotactics

modified Jan 7 at 5:00 Divad Samoth 1

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On the use of possessive pronouns instead of definite articles in AmE

english pronouns determiners possession

answered Jan 7 at 2:12 Vegawatcher 274

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How to exactly pronounce IPA

phonology phonetics ipa pronunciation

answered Jan 7 at 1:01 Vegawatcher 274

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Saussure and Modern Linguistics

chomsky history-of-linguistics structural-linguistics

answered Jan 6 at 21:08 user6726 63.1k

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