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Why do we have interest in (dying) language preservation?

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Can the /m/ sound in a 1st person pronoun be considered a linguistic universal?

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Can Modern Hebrew be considered an Indo-European language?

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What are the criteria for deciding whether a language is "natural"?

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How can I distinguish modern Scandinavian languages at a glance?

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What is the origin of non-natural grammatical genders in Indo-European languages?

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What does a computational linguist actually do?

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What parts of speech / word classes do languages most frequently lack?

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Machine translation - Rule-Based and Statistics-Based approaches

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What is the reasoning behind the selection of the IPA symbols?

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What is the name of the phoneme produced in an upper-class Briton's pronunciation of the word "Duke"? What's different in the articulation?

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How are relationships between clauses marked in languages that lack sentential embedding?

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What is a middle voice and a medio-passive voice?

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What has NLP/CL brought to the table of pencil-and-paper linguistics?

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Why are artificial languages created always by individuals and not by international institutions?

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What is the best way to accurately translate slang?

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How does "-age" come from L "-aticum", with a change from "t" to "g"?

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How do linguists place the vowels of a language precisely on the vowel trapezoid?

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Is the countable vs mass noun distinction common outside English?

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What makes a constructed language likely to gain widespread use?

answered Oct 11, 2012 at 11:45

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Languages that are gaining morphological distinctions

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The paucal to denote between three to six individuals

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Which language would be easiest for a computer to parse?

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The hunger for single words

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Are there semivowels besides /w/ and /j/ and which are most common?

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How does individual linguistic behavior relate to one's attitude of language politics in Norwegian?

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What is the primary phonological difference between dialects, vowels or consonants?

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How did Korean become a language isolate?

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What is the difference between syllable-timing and stress-timing?

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Textbook suggestions for syntax, semantics/pragmatics and phonetics/phonology

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Why do we have interest in (dying) language preservation?

Can the /m/ sound in a 1st person pronoun be considered a linguistic universal?

Can Modern Hebrew be considered an Indo-European language?

What are the criteria for deciding whether a language is "natural"?

How can I distinguish modern Scandinavian languages at a glance?

What is the origin of non-natural grammatical genders in Indo-European languages?

What does a computational linguist actually do?

What parts of speech / word classes do languages most frequently lack?

Machine translation - Rule-Based and Statistics-Based approaches

What is the reasoning behind the selection of the IPA symbols?

What is the name of the phoneme produced in an upper-class Briton's pronunciation of the word "Duke"? What's different in the articulation?

How are relationships between clauses marked in languages that lack sentential embedding?

What is a middle voice and a medio-passive voice?

What has NLP/CL brought to the table of pencil-and-paper linguistics?

Why are artificial languages created always by individuals and not by international institutions?

What is the best way to accurately translate slang?

How does "-age" come from L "-aticum", with a change from "t" to "g"?

How do linguists place the vowels of a language precisely on the vowel trapezoid?

Is the countable vs mass noun distinction common outside English?

What makes a constructed language likely to gain widespread use?

Languages that are gaining morphological distinctions

The paucal to denote between three to six individuals

Which language would be easiest for a computer to parse?

The hunger for single words

Are there semivowels besides /w/ and /j/ and which are most common?

How does individual linguistic behavior relate to one's attitude of language politics in Norwegian?

What is the primary phonological difference between dialects, vowels or consonants?

How did Korean become a language isolate?

What is the difference between syllable-timing and stress-timing?

Textbook suggestions for syntax, semantics/pragmatics and phonetics/phonology