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Can English syntax alone tell apart a person's background?

Peeling away some of the flavour of your question, I think it boils down to: "are there non-lexical, non-pronunciation cues that distinguish US English from Canadian English from British English ...
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Study of the English language

This illustrates the stark difference between linguistic analysis and what is generally known as "critical theory". The text snippets are somewhere between unambiguously and probably not ...
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Does 'z' act as a coda or onset in the syllable structure for the word crazy?

Nobody has devised a satisfactory test for syllabification especially in English. The literature is chock full of contradictory claims as to the syllabification of words, all supported with a bit of ...
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Establishing criteria for sounds likely to facilitate phonological mergers around them

Can a rough hierarchy of sounds likely to facilitate mergers in their phonological environment be produced?...I’m asking about the phones that facilitate mergers for other sounds around them. ...
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Update: what is the structure of the copula sentence in phrase structure grammar

Because phrase structure grammars are about syntax - patterns by which words get put together, without concern for what the resulting sentence means - the copula is just reflected like other verbs: ...
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