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What symbol, if any, signifies an audible nasal emission in the IPA?
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What is cosubordination?
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How do tone languages assign phonemic tones to loanwords from non-tone languages?
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What are some of the difficulties that linguists face in defining the notion of "word"?
Awarded May 9, 2023 at 2:17
How seriously do modern linguists take the idea of phonesthemes?
Awarded Apr 28, 2023 at 23:49
Wouldn't a language without recursion still be non-finite at the level of discourse?
Awarded Mar 27, 2023 at 15:19
Are sentences the only constituents that "sentence adverbs" modify?
Awarded Mar 2, 2023 at 20:46
Are there any natural languages in which /ʂ/ and /ʃ/ are distinct phonemes?
Awarded Feb 14, 2022 at 10:57
Is there anything analogous to grammatical gender for verbs?
Awarded Aug 10, 2021 at 17:42
Are complement clauses with finite verbs noun phrases?
Awarded Jan 20, 2021 at 21:06
Do applicative verbs ever govern the cases of their objects?
Awarded Aug 14, 2020 at 22:37
Are there languages without vowel reduction?
Awarded Jul 3, 2020 at 9:32
What does the term "coercion" mean in the context of Cognitive Linguistics?
Awarded Dec 26, 2019 at 20:50
What is the difference between phrase prosody and sentence prosody?
Awarded Nov 7, 2019 at 10:15
How do languages that permit only CV and CCV syllables mark phonological word boundaries?
Awarded Mar 11, 2019 at 0:20
Do languages change at different rates?
Awarded Nov 13, 2018 at 18:35
Where can I find a list of abbreviations used in tree diagrams of sentences?
Awarded Oct 8, 2018 at 9:35
Can the word "said" be a determiner in written English?
Awarded May 7, 2018 at 17:19
Are /w/ and /j/ considered to be consonants?
Awarded May 5, 2018 at 13:38
Is there any difference between imperfect and imperfective aspect?
Awarded Apr 16, 2018 at 16:52
Are "go" and "went" part of the same lexeme?
Awarded Mar 22, 2018 at 11:26
Are there any languages in which verbs are a closed class?
Awarded Nov 19, 2017 at 19:01
What is the difference between a subordinate clause and an embedded clause?
Awarded Nov 6, 2017 at 12:50
Is the reality of zero morphs controversial among linguists?
Awarded Oct 2, 2017 at 11:33
What factors affect the number of synonyms a language has?
Awarded Feb 10, 2017 at 0:49
What is the difference, if any, between "ungrammatical" and "infelicitous" as linguistic terms?
Awarded Jan 23, 2017 at 7:26
Why does the English complementizer "that" look like the relative pronoun "that"?
Awarded Oct 30, 2016 at 18:10
How can I use C's and V's to describe syllable structures in a way that rules out highly unlikely syllable structures?
Awarded Oct 19, 2016 at 7:49
How do linguists define the idea of a grammatical subject?
Awarded Mar 21, 2016 at 11:47
What do the terms "exponent" and "formative" mean in linguistics?
Awarded Jan 17, 2016 at 15:53
How does vowel harmony typically arise in a language?
Awarded Oct 22, 2015 at 17:40
What is the difference between assertive and non-assertive words?
Awarded Jun 29, 2015 at 2:34
How common are the different semantic types of compounds?
Awarded May 30, 2015 at 17:04
What is the difference between "or" and "either...or"?
Awarded May 6, 2015 at 8:29
Is there any synchronic difference between homonymy and polysemy?
Awarded Dec 26, 2014 at 21:01
What's the difference between recursion and embedding?
Awarded Dec 10, 2014 at 19:54
What are the chief advantages & disadvantages of describing sentences with dependency vs. phrase structure trees?
Awarded Jul 1, 2014 at 4:21
What is juncture in phonetics and/or phonology?
Awarded May 1, 2014 at 8:26
What are some of the disadvantages of learning a language through book-study as opposed to immersion?
Awarded Feb 11, 2014 at 10:57
What is the difference between syllable-timing and stress-timing?
Awarded Feb 2, 2014 at 20:20
What is word order used for in "free word order" languages?
Awarded Jan 9, 2014 at 5:25
What is a mora?
Awarded Jan 4, 2014 at 16:44

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