Otavio Macedo

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Do the Khoisan languages resemble the world's first language?

Oct 3 '11

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Are there any non-Indo-European languages with go-periphrasis?

Oct 24 '11

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Why do languages not share a root for "butterfly"?

Jan 14 '12

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Was there a Semitic influence on Proto-Germanic?

Oct 30 '11

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How powerful is literacy to slow down language change?

Jan 10 '12

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Why are consonants distinguished differently than vowels?

Mar 12 '13

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What language, if any, do deaf people think in?

May 17 '12

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Is there an IPA character for the sympathetic sucking in sound?

Apr 5 '12

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Are some languages known to have taken grammatical features etc rather than just lexicon from their substrate languages?

Sep 16 '11

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Outside of Modern Hebrew, do any previously dead languages have native speakers again?

Oct 6 '11

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What explains the Icelandic language conservatism?

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Was there a Semitic influence on Proto-Germanic?

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Is there any case of a "convergent language family"?

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Are there any non-Indo-European languages with go-periphrasis?

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What's the difference between phonetics and phonology?

Sep 15 '11

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Languages that are gaining morphological distinctions

Sep 14 '11

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Why does speech speed seem to vary between different languages?

Sep 29 '11

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Sep 27 '11

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What are some alternatives to Chomskian generative grammar?

Sep 14 '11

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