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Why is [la] widely used as a substitution for singing? Is it a worldwide phenomenon?

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Do Russian-Ukrainian bilinguals or speakers immersed in both languages switch between the pair [ʂ ʐ] and [ʃ ʒ] when they switch between the languages?

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What factors determine the numeral coming to numbers such as -1, 0, 0.5, 100% in a language which has and only has contrast in singular and plural?

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Is increased loudness a necessary characteristic of the stress in Russian?

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Are dative governing verbs in IE languages mainly inherited from PIE, or later developed within each IE language?

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Do languages generally tend to avoid palindromic syllables?

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What books give a comprehensive analysis of intermorphemic consonant clusters in English?

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Is it possible to talk about two different phonemes if they always have the same manifestations?

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Are the vowel charts of male and female the same regardless of scale?

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Is the reduction or disappearance of alveolar trill [r] a cross-linguistical phenomenon?

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Does a synchronically reduced or diachronically changed trill /r/ often become an [ɾ] rather than [ʐ] and why?

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How is the "basic form/citation form" defined in highly inflected languages besides IE languages?

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Is the sequence of time adverbials, place adverbials and manner adverbials appearing in the same sentence universal or typologically determined?

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What factors determine how you continue the sentence "Are you together with your brother or..." with the word "sister"?

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Why is the descriptive quantitative expression coincident with the expression of possession in many languages?

asked Aug 27, 2020 at 13:42

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Does the voicing of morpheme-initial /z d/ in German transmit to the preceding voiceless consonant in the same consonant cluster?

asked Mar 8, 2019 at 19:47

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Is it appropriate to say that [ɕ] is an intermediate form of [ʃ ç]?

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What calls the phenomenon that the sounds of two synonyms mix together and form an expression with the same meaning?

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Why do retroflex and postalveolar fricatives sound so similar despite the quite different positions of the tongue?

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Is there any epenthesis in German by which "eins" sounds like "eints" and how frequent is the phenomenon?

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Why is it often the "large" one between the two words for a polar dimension that is marked?

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Are contour tone system and complex consonant clusters compatible in phonotactics?

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What is the articulatory nature of [lʲ] and how is it normally lenited world wide, especially compared to [l]?

asked Sep 21, 2018 at 22:52

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Why is [n] easy to be velarized efter a back rounded vowel?

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What impact does it bring if the tone values of a tone language are generally lowered?

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How common is it for languages using non-Latin alphabets to borrow English words while keeping both (transliterated) spelling and pronunciation?

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In the sound change [t] to [ð], what steps would normally take place in which order?

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How do people discern different plosives without formant transition?

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Can the need for ambiguity lead to merge of grammatical person, or other semantic merge?

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Is there any tool where I can effectively find some examples of a specific sound change in world's languages?

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Why is [la] widely used as a substitution for singing? Is it a worldwide phenomenon?

Do Russian-Ukrainian bilinguals or speakers immersed in both languages switch between the pair [ʂ ʐ] and [ʃ ʒ] when they switch between the languages?

What factors determine the numeral coming to numbers such as -1, 0, 0.5, 100% in a language which has and only has contrast in singular and plural?

Is increased loudness a necessary characteristic of the stress in Russian?

Are dative governing verbs in IE languages mainly inherited from PIE, or later developed within each IE language?

Do languages generally tend to avoid palindromic syllables?

What books give a comprehensive analysis of intermorphemic consonant clusters in English?

Is it possible to talk about two different phonemes if they always have the same manifestations?

Are the vowel charts of male and female the same regardless of scale?

Is the reduction or disappearance of alveolar trill [r] a cross-linguistical phenomenon?

Does a synchronically reduced or diachronically changed trill /r/ often become an [ɾ] rather than [ʐ] and why?

How is the "basic form/citation form" defined in highly inflected languages besides IE languages?

Is the sequence of time adverbials, place adverbials and manner adverbials appearing in the same sentence universal or typologically determined?

What factors determine how you continue the sentence "Are you together with your brother or..." with the word "sister"?

Why is the descriptive quantitative expression coincident with the expression of possession in many languages?

Does the voicing of morpheme-initial /z d/ in German transmit to the preceding voiceless consonant in the same consonant cluster?

Is it appropriate to say that [ɕ] is an intermediate form of [ʃ ç]?

What calls the phenomenon that the sounds of two synonyms mix together and form an expression with the same meaning?

Why do retroflex and postalveolar fricatives sound so similar despite the quite different positions of the tongue?

Is there any epenthesis in German by which "eins" sounds like "eints" and how frequent is the phenomenon?

Why is it often the "large" one between the two words for a polar dimension that is marked?

Are contour tone system and complex consonant clusters compatible in phonotactics?

What is the articulatory nature of [lʲ] and how is it normally lenited world wide, especially compared to [l]?

Why is [n] easy to be velarized efter a back rounded vowel?

What impact does it bring if the tone values of a tone language are generally lowered?

How common is it for languages using non-Latin alphabets to borrow English words while keeping both (transliterated) spelling and pronunciation?

In the sound change [t] to [ð], what steps would normally take place in which order?

How do people discern different plosives without formant transition?

Can the need for ambiguity lead to merge of grammatical person, or other semantic merge?

Is there any tool where I can effectively find some examples of a specific sound change in world's languages?