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Why is the “long i” sound in English written /aɪ/?
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How do you draw a syntax tree for a sentence with a dummy subject?
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Which writing script can represent all human sounds?
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Does any living language contrast /kʷ/ and /kw/?
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Irregular penultimate stress in English words from classical sources
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Are there any linguistic toollkits for PowerShell or .NET?
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Why were writing systems invented independently during roughly the same period across multiple civilizations?
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Is to always a preposition? [closed]
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How did Greek loanwords with 'ae' come to be pronounced [i] in modern English?
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Is there any evidence of language contact between the Inuit and Ainu languages?
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Evidence that ø and œ are separate phonemes in French?
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Why are pronouns considered grammatical (functional) morphemes?
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Sentence stress detection
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Which accents distinguish “golf” and “gulf”?
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To what extent does this image accurately express the modularity of linguistic units?
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Significance of 'ฯ' in English orthography
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Syntax relative clause
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Is the difference between a labialized consonant [ʷ] and a consonant followed by a [w] audible?
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Why isn't there a dental trill?
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Why is the word “war” in Romance languages predominantly of Germanic origin instead of Latin?
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The “close front rounded vowel” mainly used in Germanic, Altaic and far Asian languages
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How to find the first use of a word?
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Glottal stops that aren't tenuis
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Any Spanish speech variety where F is pronounced as ϕ?
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How are topic-phrases represented in X-bar trees
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What does the diacritic in [e̯], [ɔʏ̯] mean?
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How do phonologists use the terms “phonological phrase” and “intonational phrase”?
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Is there an effort to prove phonemes?
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Formant frequencies of consonants
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Since when did Indo-European languages start associating noun genders with male/female sexes?
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What makes East-Asian languages sound different than European languages?
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Are nasals stop consonants?
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Advice on voiced and unvoiced in sanskrit sounds
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What are the target and source domain of this metaphor
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Do German and English share the same word roots?
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Why Korean transcriptions of Japanese words uses the letters ㄱ,ㄷ,ㅈ for initial /k/, /t/, /tɕ/ while using ㅋ,ㅌ,ㅊ for other languages?
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Are there ablaut changes in romance languages?
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Does Basque sound like Spanish, or vice versa?
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Plural form as respect form - based on what?
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Cause: [z] --> [s] at the end
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Are there any languages with different plural forms for different numbers?
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Why is “och” (and) not spelled “og” in Swedish?
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“They told me that” which one is the direct and indirect object?
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What is the longest word without a vowel in any language?
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Is there a rounded /æ/? Is there a Near-open front rounded vowel?
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How does the term “naturalistic speech” differ from “natural language”
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What does “ *! ” mean?
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How does the nonsense word “frabjous” conform to English phonotactics?
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Can the first auxiliary verb be the specifier of a VP in the X-Bar theory?
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Why are unrounded front vowels and rounded back vowels much more common than rounded front and unrounded back vowels?
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Is there such a thing as an L colored vowel?
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Dissatisfaction
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What is the difference between lexical verb and copular verb?
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Determining the Age of a Word
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finite/non-finite verb = conjugated/non-conjugated verb
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West Germanic Th-Stopping
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How to save the process of your work in PRAAT?
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Do most languages have the same basic verb tenses?
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History of the verb positioning in German
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Difference between sociolinguistics and anthropological linguistics?
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