User Dominik Lukes

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Do unschooled people use cases correctly, e.g. in Germany and in Russia?

answered Dec 9, 2014 at 7:20

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Does majority of linguists accept universal grammar?

answered May 15, 2015 at 7:12

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How old is linguistics as a discipline?

answered Apr 5, 2014 at 8:22

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Is it possible to become fluent in any language simply by reading books in that language?

answered Nov 16, 2013 at 18:49

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Can you give some examples of counter-intuitive phenomena discovered by linguists?

answered Nov 26, 2014 at 21:14

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Why don't any languages have strictly one character for every single phonetic sound?

answered Dec 16, 2014 at 8:46

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Why do European languages use a similar alphabet, but South East Asian languages do not?

answered Feb 23, 2015 at 22:55

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Why are Native American names translated?

answered Dec 11, 2014 at 15:15

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Is Language infinite?

answered Aug 6, 2014 at 19:45

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Why aren't there any Czech dictionaries that report the gender of nouns?

answered Jun 21, 2015 at 7:51

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How is it that such varied sounds (in major European Languages) came to be represented by the same letter "j"?

answered Aug 5, 2014 at 19:41

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Are there any words understood by speakers of any language in the world?

answered Nov 26, 2014 at 6:36

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Why can't these English sentences passivize?

answered Oct 6, 2014 at 7:19

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Is music a language?

answered Jan 5, 2015 at 17:59

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A list of parts of speech

answered Jul 19, 2015 at 17:08

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What quantity-level of mutual intelligible words are needed for claiming dialects to be languages?

answered Dec 4, 2014 at 22:04

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Is spoken English more efficient than other languages?

answered Aug 22, 2013 at 7:20

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Sapir-Whorf vs. Chomsky

answered Oct 15, 2015 at 6:25

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What are the exact relations between Slovak and Slovene?

answered Jun 24, 2013 at 7:12

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Why is constituency needed, since dependency gets the job done more easily and economically?

answered May 28, 2014 at 21:10

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How come I cannot get my "oral" English to a native speaker level after 25 years of trying?

answered Oct 16, 2015 at 7:36

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Is there a term for errors by native speakers?

answered Oct 8, 2015 at 8:44

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Does structural linguistics still have relevance today?

answered Apr 6, 2014 at 19:38

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Do animals have foreign languages?

answered Jun 23, 2015 at 20:19

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Am I using the right terms in referring to "soft" and "hard" vowels and consonants?

answered Nov 19, 2015 at 23:36

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Why are there inflections?

answered May 1, 2014 at 6:58

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Convert audio recording of word to IPA representation

answered Jun 3, 2013 at 9:11

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Any difference between natural and programming languages?

answered Jul 20, 2014 at 21:33

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How is "Writer/reader-responsible language" correlated with synthetic/analytic languages?

answered Sep 9, 2014 at 21:56

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Conversational English corpus for download

answered Mar 4, 2015 at 9:16

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Do unschooled people use cases correctly, e.g. in Germany and in Russia?

Does majority of linguists accept universal grammar?

How old is linguistics as a discipline?

Is it possible to become fluent in any language simply by reading books in that language?

Can you give some examples of counter-intuitive phenomena discovered by linguists?

Why don't any languages have strictly one character for every single phonetic sound?

Why do European languages use a similar alphabet, but South East Asian languages do not?

Why are Native American names translated?

Is Language infinite?

Why aren't there any Czech dictionaries that report the gender of nouns?

How is it that such varied sounds (in major European Languages) came to be represented by the same letter "j"?

Are there any words understood by speakers of any language in the world?

Why can't these English sentences passivize?

Is music a language?

A list of parts of speech

What quantity-level of mutual intelligible words are needed for claiming dialects to be languages?

Is spoken English more efficient than other languages?

Sapir-Whorf vs. Chomsky

What are the exact relations between Slovak and Slovene?

Why is constituency needed, since dependency gets the job done more easily and economically?

How come I cannot get my "oral" English to a native speaker level after 25 years of trying?

Is there a term for errors by native speakers?

Does structural linguistics still have relevance today?

Do animals have foreign languages?

Am I using the right terms in referring to "soft" and "hard" vowels and consonants?

Why are there inflections?

Convert audio recording of word to IPA representation

Any difference between natural and programming languages?

How is "Writer/reader-responsible language" correlated with synthetic/analytic languages?

Conversational English corpus for download