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Difference between intonation and tonality?

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As a relatively proficient heritage speaker, should I consider myself a “native” speaker, or something else?

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What is the difference between a word root and a word stem?

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Is there a name for when a 'c' becomes an [s] sound in words like rusticity, when originally it was a 'c' in rustiC?

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Antiphrasis vs. Auto-antonymy

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Why does Spanish have different names for the letters of the alphabet from English?

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What is the term for referring to a brand in place of the product

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What is the exact term for the way Tarzan speak in such sentences as “Me Tarzan, you Jane”?

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What is the technical term for the copyist error of replacing a letter with another, similar-looking letter?

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Is DNA a language?

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What is aesthetic equivalence in translation?

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Center of a set of words

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Comparing writing systems by ease of encoding/decoding information

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Is there a formal term for “long/formal” queries?

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