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Native speaker of American English (AmE) with touches of Southern AmE. Proficient in French and German. Elementary knowledge of Mandarin. Basic knowledge of linguistics.

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40 Languages that are gaining morphological distinctions Sep 14 '11
14 What's the 'official' term for when a word is at the tip of your tongue? Oct 2 '11
12 Are some languages inherently harder for children to acquire? Oct 19 '11
12 The current status of Irish Gaelic in Ireland Jan 26 '17
12 Why do English verbs inflect so little, especially in regard to “person”? Sep 21 '11
10 Earliest recognition that Germanic and Romance languages are related Dec 16 '16
10 What is the term for, and a list of, “continuous dialects”? Oct 28 '11
10 Do linguists measure the relation distance between languages? How? Dec 28 '11
10 What characteristics are unique to English (or at least rare among language as a whole)? Feb 1 '17
9 Are there natural languages that do not obey Zipf's law? Jan 14 '14
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