Linguistics

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Are Semitic and Indo-European languages at all related?
Awarded Oct 6 at 1:31
How different are Chinese dialects?
Awarded Sep 22 at 8:36
Is it hard for software speech synthesisers to handle IPA? If so, why?
Awarded Aug 14 at 1:50
Syntax - difference between modifiers and complements in NPs?
Awarded Jul 21 at 8:37
Is there a French IPA translator for free?
Awarded Jul 12 at 8:56
the difference between upward and downward entailment
Awarded Jul 4 at 14:47
Is English the only language (except classical Latin, Cyrillic, symbol languages and auxiliary languages) that has no diacritic symbols/accents?
Awarded May 11 at 22:21
Is the sound "w" a velar or a bilabial consonant?
Awarded May 5 at 1:32
Why does Vietnamese language seem to be so similar to Mandarin Chinese
Awarded Apr 9 at 0:48
Why is Korean considered a language isolate?
Awarded Mar 27 at 3:41
Why there are no grammatical cases in the French language?
Awarded Mar 8 at 11:22
What are the subjective and objective genitives?
Awarded Feb 27 at 20:32
Why do most languages have multiple genders? Also, how do languages determine what gender to give things?
Awarded Feb 8 at 16:57
What's the difference between /ɪ/ and /i(ː)/?
Awarded Jan 31 at 14:17
Status of "Mmm" or "Hmm"
Awarded Dec 22, 2022 at 16:09
Linguistics relativity and linguistic determinism
Awarded Dec 20, 2022 at 19:51
Is it possible to become fluent in any language simply by reading books in that language?
Awarded Dec 5, 2022 at 8:02
Definitions of extra-linguistic, internal and external change?
Awarded Nov 22, 2022 at 18:01
Why are "eat" and "drink" different words in languages?
Awarded Oct 20, 2022 at 20:34
What are the characteristics of a glide in English?
Awarded Oct 13, 2022 at 8:42
Are 'reference', 'sense', 'connotation', 'denotation', 'intension', and 'extension' mutually distinct terms?
Awarded Sep 15, 2022 at 1:33
Paradigmatic vs syntagmatic relationship
Awarded Sep 5, 2022 at 5:42
Linguistic relationship between Hebrew and Greek
Awarded Jul 8, 2022 at 23:48
What is my first language?
Awarded Jun 1, 2022 at 13:48
Corpus of Chat/IM/Text Conversations?
Awarded May 12, 2022 at 15:06
Sounds that humans make with their mouths
Awarded May 10, 2022 at 13:01
Is there an English to Coptic translator online?
Awarded Apr 24, 2022 at 23:21
Is there a long list of languages whose writing systems don't use spaces?
Awarded Apr 23, 2022 at 0:10
Infinitive verbs in syntax tree
Awarded Mar 19, 2022 at 15:55
Why did Old English lose both thorn and eth?
Awarded Mar 17, 2022 at 11:02
What is the difference between implicature and entailment?
Awarded Feb 6, 2022 at 21:28
What "category" are proper names of this kind "Debbie Downer", "Negative Nancy" etc? [closed]
Awarded Jan 26, 2022 at 19:33
What is the scope of negation?
Awarded Jan 15, 2022 at 13:43
What's the difference between counterbleeding, bleeding and feeding?
Awarded Aug 16, 2021 at 11:12
Am I using the right terms in referring to "soft" and "hard" vowels and consonants?
Awarded Aug 12, 2021 at 4:58
Is there a word in a dead or lost language that we lost the definition to?
Awarded Jul 30, 2021 at 17:45
Sapir-Whorf vs. Chomsky
Awarded May 6, 2021 at 12:45
Could the Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs have been deciphered without the Rosetta Stone with modern tech?
Awarded Apr 30, 2021 at 20:16
How to test if a string of words is a grammatical sentence
Awarded Apr 19, 2021 at 1:53
Is English tonal for some words, like "permit"?
Awarded Mar 24, 2021 at 2:27
What is the difference between "or" and "either...or"?
Awarded Mar 4, 2021 at 13:06
What do (...) brackets mean in phonetic spelling?
Awarded Mar 2, 2021 at 2:42
Why do Korean and Japanese sound similar to each other to native speakers of English?
Awarded Feb 23, 2021 at 16:57
What is the origin of counting "Mississippis"?
Awarded Feb 22, 2021 at 1:26
Convert audio recording of word to IPA representation
Awarded Feb 16, 2021 at 20:48
Using the word "dream" as hope for the future across languages
Awarded Feb 6, 2021 at 7:32
What's the difference between structural and generative linguistics?
Awarded Jan 19, 2021 at 11:06
Why do European languages use a similar alphabet, but South East Asian languages do not?
Awarded Jan 14, 2021 at 11:11
How many Latin words have Greek roots?
Awarded Jan 4, 2021 at 0:56
Were ancient languages as sophisticated as modern languages?
Awarded Jan 1, 2021 at 9:11
Why do some people speak/whisper the words they are reading?
Awarded Dec 21, 2020 at 18:21
Analyzing negation with a syntactic tree [closed]
Awarded Nov 25, 2020 at 22:22
Why is it "easier" to understand a foreign language when reading than to speak it?
Awarded Oct 18, 2020 at 12:04
How does Kaldi compare with Mozilla DeepSpeech in terms of speech recognition accuracy?
Awarded Oct 17, 2020 at 6:52
Is there a name for a word which can take both genders?
Awarded Oct 11, 2020 at 7:57
Hearing your name in a noisy crowd: what is this called and how might it work?
Awarded Oct 6, 2020 at 19:20
The relationship between "orange" the colour and "orange" the fruit
Awarded Sep 22, 2020 at 17:20
How are languages deciphered?
Awarded Sep 14, 2020 at 1:27
Can Modern Hebrew be considered an Indo-European language?
Awarded Aug 19, 2020 at 17:32
What is the distinction between agglutinative languages and polysynthetic ones?
Awarded Jul 21, 2020 at 7:43
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