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What languages, if any, require spaces around punctuation marks?
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How is category theory applied in linguistics?
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What is the difference between a phonetic syllable and a phonological syllable?
Awarded Nov 22 at 21:23
Lexeme vs. Lemma
Awarded Nov 7 at 13:10
Why do words like 'irregardless' and 'conversate' form?
Awarded Nov 7 at 0:38
How did Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov's cat help him decode Mayan?
Awarded Nov 4 at 2:21
What is the difference between traditional and modern IPA?
Awarded Oct 14 at 15:06
Plural "you" in different language families connoting respect
Awarded Oct 12 at 17:15
Why were words for the four cardinal directions in Romance languages borrowed from Old English?
Awarded Oct 12 at 13:04
Are sound changes regular?
Awarded Oct 8 at 12:51
Phonological vowel length in American English due to (t-)flapping
Awarded Oct 6 at 17:46
"Den" or "det" in Swedish
Awarded Sep 30 at 7:10
Is there any language which distinguishes between “un” as in “not” and “un” as in “inverse”?
Awarded Sep 27 at 6:46
Why do Richard and Robert become Dick and Bob?
Awarded Sep 26 at 9:06
Do all languages distinguish between persons and non-persons?
Awarded Sep 24 at 14:48
What is the difference between Silesian Polish and neutral/standard Polish?
Awarded Sep 24 at 10:06
Is the schwa nasalized before a nasal?
Awarded Sep 23 at 13:38
Which Romance Language is the least similar to Latin?
Awarded Sep 22 at 16:11
Determining the Age of a Word
Awarded Sep 17 at 17:33
Is 'clothes' countable or uncountable? [closed]
Awarded Sep 17 at 10:12
IPA symbol for a pause?
Awarded Sep 17 at 4:02
Apical postalveolar approximant [ɹ̺] and retroflex approximant [ɻ]: What is the difference?
Awarded Sep 16 at 17:36
Missing Devanagari letters in Hindi
Awarded Sep 5 at 2:22
Is there some relationship between the modern u and μ?
Awarded Sep 3 at 15:03
Language with the highest ratio of diacritics to letters in typical text
Awarded Aug 30 at 12:35
"Character sets" for top 100 languages (as opposed to Unicode)
Awarded Aug 20 at 5:08
Is there a tool for conversion of IPA into X-Sampa?
Awarded Jul 31 at 9:16
Is there a term for the phenomenon of linking the end of a word to the beginning of the next word?
Awarded Jul 28 at 21:58
Etymology of Romanian "amor" (cf. "iubire")
Awarded Jul 27 at 20:04
Do some languages have articles besides the definite and indefinite articles?
Awarded Jul 13 at 13:56
Do most languages have the same basic verb tenses?
Awarded Jul 5 at 11:47
Derivation of the Indo-European lemma *bʰréh₂tēr ‘brother’
Awarded Jul 1 at 18:41
Why does the ASL fingerspelling sign shaped like an 'x' represent R, not X?
Awarded Jun 25 at 19:17
Why is "Colourless green ideas sleep furiously" considered meaningless?
Awarded Jun 23 at 9:10
Is there any evidence of language contact between the Inuit and Ainu languages?
Awarded Jun 22 at 15:05
Is there an API that converts a word into an IPA Transcriptions?
Awarded Jun 17 at 12:00
Which languages other than Chinese have apical vowels?
Awarded Jun 7 at 19:17
Markers for feminine and masculine names in Old Norse?
Awarded Jun 6 at 15:22
Which is closer to Biblical Hebrew - Modern Hebrew, or Modern Arabic?
Awarded Jun 5 at 12:57
What is a "nucleus" in syntax?
Awarded Jun 2 at 9:55
Sentence stress detection
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root of the word Virt
Awarded May 27 at 19:20
Pronunciation of D sound in British English
Awarded May 27 at 13:27
Why is "No" more universal than "Yes"?
Awarded May 27 at 3:18
Is it possible that the word virgin originally had two meanings?
Awarded May 24 at 21:11
Which accents distinguish "golf" and "gulf"?
Awarded May 24 at 1:57
Detection if input sentence represents an incomplete sentence?
Awarded May 20 at 8:41
What is an example of a speech repertoire?
Awarded May 17 at 9:33
Why do speakers of certain East Asian languages chop off the end of English words?
Awarded May 17 at 4:27
Origin of née in English speaking countries and the rise in usage of it [closed]
Awarded May 10 at 5:41
Anglicisation of the voiceless velar fricative [x]
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Why has the neuter gender disappeared from almost all the modern Romance languages?
Awarded Apr 21 at 20:20
How to read a spectrogram?
Awarded Apr 20 at 16:06
Plural form as respect form - based on what?
Awarded Apr 20 at 10:06
Why did Greek never develop into other languages like Latin?
Awarded Apr 18 at 11:06
Is there evidence that "proto-" languages actually existed?
Awarded Apr 17 at 13:52
Did Latin "cum" get replaced in French by "avec" because "con" sounded obscene?
Awarded Apr 7 at 23:15
What do you call the non-terminal nodes of a syntax tree?
Awarded Apr 3 at 14:05
Why does "before" mean both "in front of" and "prior to"?
Awarded Apr 2 at 8:56
Praat pitch and intensity and what they mean
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