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How do non-English speakers perceive English /b d g/?
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Timescale for language divergence at ~10,000 years: Polynesian languages vs languages of the Americas?
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Language that uses IPA
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Are there tonal languages which use a rising intonation for questions?
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Is the Fifa'a language of Saudi Arabia a dialect of Arabic or a separate language?
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Why is it that Latin was more "successful" in the western part of the Empire than in the eastern part?
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Does structural linguistics still have relevance today?
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Has a Dravido-Australic superfamily been proposed?
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Is a text with orthographic or grammatic mistakes in a language X still a text in that language X?
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Does the English "Garden" come from the French "Jardin" or the German "Garten"?
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Etymology of Romanian "amor" (cf. "iubire")
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Are there any latin-alphabet languages written right-to-left?
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Seeking IPA study aids (symbol memorization, audio recognition, transcription practice)
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Examples of category-changing reduplication
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Why isn’t the letter “G” immediately after “C” in the alphabet?
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Can you write Japanese in only Hiragana, or only Katakana, or only Chinese characters?
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Origin of h as a modifier letter
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Do any languages use words like particles to represent commas, periods, hyphens, quotes, parentheses, etc.?
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Do bilinguals and multilingual native speakers make language mistakes?
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What do you call an activity accomplished by other activities
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How to tag_pos in nltk for a language that is not English?
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Are there names for the individual diphthongs?
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How did the Greek aspirates become fricatives?
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When we talk about front and back vowels in the vowel chart, does it refer to the position of the tip of the tongue or the whole body of the tongue?
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Is voice really the only difference between [s] and [z]?
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What is the x-bar tree of 'I am proud of my students'? (having trouble with proud)
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Is the /k/ sound in McDonald considered syllabic? (and insertion of /@/ when pronouncing syllable onsets)
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Linguistics, a discipline or a field?
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How common is a topic particle beyond just Japanese and Korean?
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What are uses of Dependency Parsing in NLP / Computational Linguistics?
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Is there a distinctive feature that separates alveolo-palatals from palatals?
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Head directionality parameter and adpositions in Finnish
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What is the name of this sound change, and do we have it in English?
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Do any English verbs end in -s or -es that are singular?
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When were there the most languages?
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Does English have [ inchoative aspect ]?
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Why are there grammars in languages in the first place?
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How to measure phonetic voicing during a stop closure?
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Do the IPA consonants /v/ and /w/ sound similar?
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Is the X bar theory applicable to any natural language other than English?
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Thematic roles adjunct
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Language with the highest ratio of diacritics to letters in typical text
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What category is because? [closed]
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Why is tense obligatory in some languages and not in others?
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Are personal pronouns in English different lexemes or just inflected forms of the same one?
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What is an "adjectival article"? Apparently Albanian "të" is one
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Can we conclude that morpheme is ALWAYS greater than syllable?
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No etymology for "dad"?
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What languages have a Perfect Imperative and what is the meaning of such a tense-mood combination?
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On the phonetics of Russian ы
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How did it happen that K was introduced to Latin alphabet in place of C and C started to mark /t͡s/ or /s/ in many languages?
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What is a natural class in phonology? How to use phonological features to identify classes?
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Is a lateral plosive a thing?
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Sentence well-formedness
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What is the correct term for a "lazy L"?
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Are most dialect in Flanders influenced by French?
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Why is the Romanian syntax for "Good night!" opposite to all the other Romance languages?
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What language takes the longest to text?
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Problem Set Solutions to 'Semantics in Generative Grammar' (Heim & Kratzer)?
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X-bar analysis of Copular verbs?
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