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Reversal of kinship terms when speaking to a child
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Is there a linguistics equivalent to Turing completeness?
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What is "case"?
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Why is /h/ called voiceless vowel phonetically, and /h/ consonant phonologically?
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Do onomatopoeias resist sound change?
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Convert audio recording of word to IPA representation
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What are some alternatives to Chomskian generative grammar?
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Is Sanskrit really the mother of all languages?
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Is there any evidence that the modern word for "bear" is an euphemism which replaced the original taboo word?
Awarded Dec 20, 2023 at 15:57
Why do many Arabic letters look exactly like other letters except for dots, yet have no similarity in sound?
Awarded Dec 10, 2023 at 0:36
Why are Native American names translated?
Awarded Aug 29, 2023 at 9:19
False-belief verbs
Awarded Jun 11, 2023 at 12:57
Worldwide map or data for linguistic distance?
Awarded May 28, 2023 at 8:46
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Is there a language whose writing is 100% phonemic?
Awarded Dec 6, 2022 at 23:00
What is the term for this derivation: "Cheeseburger comes from Hamburger" but... the word hamburger didn't refer to ham
Awarded Dec 1, 2022 at 20:55
Why are "eat" and "drink" different words in languages?
Awarded Oct 13, 2022 at 16:05
Can Someone Identify This Diacritic?
Awarded Sep 5, 2022 at 0:41
Is pronouncing loanwords according to their "native" pronunciation stigmatised across most cultures and languages?
Awarded Aug 25, 2022 at 20:57
How do linguists distinguish between case endings and postpositions, especially in languages which have both and/or have no traditional grammar?
Awarded Jun 8, 2022 at 6:20
Are there languages that distinguish between inclusive and exclusive "or"?
Awarded May 27, 2022 at 6:18
How do field linguists begin to study an undocumented language which they cannot speak?
Awarded Apr 15, 2022 at 4:56
How similar are Ukrainian and Russian?
Awarded Mar 28, 2022 at 11:08
Why isn’t the letter “G” immediately after “C” in the alphabet?
Awarded Dec 19, 2021 at 12:08
Why is constituency needed, since dependency gets the job done more easily and economically?
Awarded Dec 6, 2021 at 10:11
Was there a Semitic influence on Proto-Germanic?
Awarded Dec 3, 2021 at 22:21
Why do languages not share a root for "butterfly"?
Awarded Sep 22, 2021 at 20:15
Why was מֹשֶׁה‎ transliterated as [moʊzɨz]?
Awarded Jul 30, 2021 at 11:11
Is there a word in a dead or lost language that we lost the definition to?
Awarded Jul 23, 2021 at 17:26
Fourth person (in Slavey language)
Awarded Jul 23, 2021 at 3:16
Are some languages inherently harder for children to acquire?
Awarded Jul 23, 2021 at 3:16
Why is the word "war" in Romance languages predominantly of Germanic origin instead of Latin?
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Can you rhyme words in sign language?
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What's the origin of "You're welcome"?
Awarded Mar 13, 2021 at 19:46
Is there a technical name for when languages use masculine pronouns to refer to both men and women?
Awarded Feb 14, 2021 at 19:42
The relationship between "orange" the colour and "orange" the fruit
Awarded Jan 18, 2021 at 7:37
What are the historical origins of terms for north, south, east and west?
Awarded Jan 8, 2021 at 23:43
American English : are [ə] and [ʌ] different phonemes? (schwa vs. chevron)
Awarded Dec 4, 2020 at 11:20
Is there a language where there are personal pronouns for the first or second person that have gender?
Awarded Oct 7, 2020 at 0:03
Is there any evidence to support the claim that English grammar is unusually straightforward?
Awarded Sep 25, 2020 at 18:50
Are there languages that don't have this kind of ambiguity?
Awarded Aug 13, 2020 at 6:27
Why did English lose declensions while German retained them?
Awarded Jun 10, 2020 at 17:42
English text corpus for download
Awarded Apr 27, 2020 at 2:40
Why is there (almost) no variety to the Hebrew accent in Israel?
Awarded Apr 15, 2020 at 6:20
Is the connection between 'right' in the sense of direction and concepts like 'correct' limited to Indo-European languages? [duplicate]
Awarded Mar 29, 2020 at 16:20
Is there a language without gender in third person pronouns?
Awarded Feb 7, 2020 at 11:40
Is there a linguistics term meaning "it's grammatically correct, but nobody says that"?
Awarded Jan 27, 2020 at 23:15
Were ancient languages as sophisticated as modern languages?
Awarded Dec 18, 2019 at 10:40
Why do so many core Romanian words with Latin roots come from different roots than in the other Romance languages?
Awarded Nov 19, 2019 at 12:00
Could the Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs have been deciphered without the Rosetta Stone with modern tech?
Awarded Nov 5, 2019 at 6:25
Why do the Romance languages use definite articles, when Latin doesn't?
Awarded Oct 16, 2019 at 10:50
Is it unusual that English uses possessive for past tense?
Awarded Oct 12, 2019 at 11:05
Why do English transliterations of Arabic names have so many Qs in them?
Awarded Oct 1, 2019 at 1:35
Is English tonal for some words, like "permit"?
Awarded Sep 10, 2019 at 20:30
Is future tense in English really a myth?
Awarded Sep 8, 2019 at 13:45
Why isn't "I've" a proper response?
Awarded Aug 25, 2019 at 9:25
Is there a list of mutually intelligible languages?
Awarded Aug 16, 2019 at 16:00
Why did Old English lose both thorn and eth?
Awarded Jul 6, 2019 at 19:35
What do you call an IPA symbol that lacks a name (e.g. ɲ)?
Awarded Apr 24, 2019 at 8:35
Are there any languages or cultures that have genderless given names?
Awarded Feb 25, 2019 at 19:50
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