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What is phonological mechanism?

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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

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What are consonants without secondary articulation called?

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Is there a way to refer to the semantic similarity-based counterpart to eggcorn?

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Is linguistics a superset of programming language theory?

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Context-Free grammars and Language

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Name for a verb form meaning “feign or pretend to do sth”

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Technical term for similarity between two words?

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Is there a linguistic term for words that can have the same meaning in different languages?

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What grammar term corresponds to N' in X-bar theory?

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