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Proto-Indo-European (PIE) words with IPA
The problem is, nobody is quite sure how PIE was pronounced!
When we talk about PIE phonemes like /*d/, we don't mean it was actually IPA [d]. We mean that "there seems to have been a phoneme, which ...
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How can I find the frequency for the Russian word "чем-нибудь"?
Asking the Leipzig Wortschatz Projekt gives the answer:
Word: чем-нибудь Number of occurrences: 5,018 Rank: 33,962
Frequency class: 14
Information on the corpus:
Information on corpus:
Russian Mixed ...
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What program can I use to make a tree of a language family?
If your want a user-friendly program to use on the go you can check Cmaptool from good people at the Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC) it's really easy to use straight forward ...
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Who said "The difference between a language and a dialect is in who has the army"
אַ שפּראַך איז אַ דיאַלעקט מיט אַן אַרמיי און פֿלאָט
a shprakh iz a dialekt mit an armey un flot
Max Weinreich
As WavesWashSands says, the earliest known published source is Weinreich's article:
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Who said "The difference between a language and a dialect is in who has the army"
Max Weinreich is usually said to be the person who created the quip, but according to the Wikipedia entry on him, he was actually quoting someone else.
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How can I find the frequency for the Russian word "чем-нибудь"?
Using the Araneum Russicum III corpus (I am linking to the readily available 125Mtokens subcorpus; after a (free) registration you get access to the whole huge 19Gtokens one; the results are from the ...
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Method for Self Teaching
Here are a few suggestions:
There is a MOOC being offered through Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/course/humanlanguage
The virtual linguistics campus has some good content and is well taught but ...
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Is there any Sanskrit-Greek-Latin-English dictionary available?
Not a single dictionary, but you could get the effect by chaining together resources. I suggest starting with Bopp's Glossarium Sanscritum which is a Sanskrit-Latin Glossary. After a few pages of that,...
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Open Dataset Latin Verb Forms
If you're interested in inflected forms, you could take data from Wiktionary's Latin section. Most verb entries have automatically-generated conjugation tables, and all of the content is CC-BY-SA.
If ...
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looking for corpus of dialogue recording in appointment between doctors and patients
Contrary to the expectations of some commentators, doctor-patient corpora are available (under some conditions, needing to sign some licence and confidentially agreement) for research. The standard ...
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Is there a better series of sentences for observing features of a language?
You're essentially describing the field-worker's script. In reality, such a list is an ever-growing project constructed on the basis of previous results (when e.g. you discover that you can't use the -...
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Looking for Spanish email or chat corpora
The Grupo de Ingeniería Lingüística, part of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México has a WhatsApp corpus of undergraduate students. They have a paper that introduces it: http://www.aclweb.org/...
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Good audio resources for the ejective consonants
The best reference source is the UCLA phonetics collection, here (you will notice a lot of other interesting sound categories).
I have strong reservations about using Wiki exemplars which are not ...
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Language acquisition by 100% immersion -- any cases you know of?
Do linguistic field workers count?
In this case I offer the case of Daniel Everett who learned the Pirahã language from scratch by contact with the native people without having any common language. Of ...
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How good ChatGPT is at answering questions?
specifically in its treatment of word sense, syntax
As far as I have seen, its treatment of word sense and syntax seem to be nearly perfect. I have been browsing its interactions with other people, ...
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Is there any corpus for technical English? (E.g., computers, IT, modern technology)
Ironically, your best bet is: https://archive.org/download/stackexchange
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Is there an English to Coptic translator online?
Machine translation in general is in its infancy. Even for major languages like Mandarin Chinese and Spanish, computers have trouble with context-dependent concepts such as verb inflection and words ...
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glossary/dictionary corpus for NLP task
Two resources are particularly popular.
WordNet
Wiktionary
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Accurately representing stress
I have to first point out that "represent" is ambiguous in linguistics: it could refer to a mental object, such as "the representation of tone in the (mental) grammar of Chinese", or it could refer to ...
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Get Prolog (other functional programming language) rules/facts from LKB or similar system
You will likely not find a program that "converts" natural language sentences into plain Prolog code like Green(X) :- Grass(X). because natural language is way too involved to be accuarately expressed ...
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Do there exist any Phoenician or Etruscan dictionaries online?
Krahmalkov's Phoenician-Punic Grammar contains a high-quality (but unfortunately short) dictionary, focusing mostly on functional words and affixes rather than content words. It seems like it's meant ...
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How can I find the frequency for the Russian word "чем-нибудь"?
The online version of Russian Nation Corpus (in Russian) offers frequency statistics of word forms, broken down by year:
https://processing.ruscorpora.ru/graphic.xml?env=alpha&mode=graphic_main&...
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Syntax tree software
For typesetting, the forest package for LaTeX is quite good, and has a lot of presets built in for linguistics purposes (syntax trees, autosegmental trees, etc).
Source:
[CP
[CP
[that]
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Where can I learn more about the 'linguistic center of gravity' theory?
I think it is Joseph Greenberg who first used this notion (borrowed from biogeography/taxonomy) in his controversy with Malcolm Guthrie, a leading Bantuist in the 1960s, about the Bantu homeland. ...
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Online etymology dictionaries for French, beyond CNTRL?
Wiktionary has etymology entries going back to Old French, Latin, and Proto-Indo-European (PIE), e.g., https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bleu#Etymology.
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For each IPA phone, are there animations or videos that depict the vocal tract during articulation?
Seeing Speech is a remarkable site that has MRI, UTI and animations for most IPA sounds.
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What program can I use to make a tree of a language family?
I'd also recommend qTree - if you've ever sat in a syntax class or had to work with natural language parsers, it will be very easy to use:
http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/software/tex/graphics/pgf/...
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Which dictionaries can be considered as the most complete for Modern Greek?
It depends on your criteria, of course. Of the contemporary monolingual dictionaries, the Triantafyllidis and Babiniotis' are both well-regarded, for different reasons.
For comprehensiveness, there ...
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Is there a document with all the inflection forms of all the world languages?
No, there is no such document however the set of thematic relations, particularly in its instantiation as 'semantic macroles', may be something like what you're after, but the way that these map on to ...
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most common Turkish words
A Frequency Dictionary of Turkish by Yeşim Aksan, Mustafa Aksan, Ümit Mersinli and Umut Ufuk Demirhan (Routledge, 2017) contains the 5,000 most common words in Turkish, based on a 50 million word ...
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