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Why /əl/ in English sounds like [o]?

answered Apr 27, 2022 at 14:04

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Is there a term for when you use grammar from one language in another?

answered Nov 4, 2022 at 22:38

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Preposition and postposition at the same time?

answered Mar 16, 2021 at 17:15

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What's the difference between /ɪ/ and /i(ː)/?

answered Mar 16, 2019 at 1:07

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What is the difference between two symbols: /i/ and /ɪ/?

answered Nov 13, 2022 at 21:49

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In which situations or societies do people not take turns to speak in conversations?

answered Nov 22 at 22:42

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What is the name for the phenomenon or process by which the brain knows what "it" in a sentence refers to?

answered Jun 13, 2016 at 15:35

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Do different languages use different sign language?

answered Jul 6, 2016 at 15:02

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Why is ʌ an open-mid back unrounded vowel?

answered Apr 4, 2022 at 22:24

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Singular countable nouns that don't require determinatives?

answered Mar 4, 2022 at 12:22

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What does 'overt NP' mean?

answered Jan 20 at 16:07

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Does IPA notation ever get capitalized to match their written counterparts?

answered Oct 26, 2017 at 15:08

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Is the adverbial phrase and adverb phrase identical?

answered Feb 23, 2017 at 15:13

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Is there an easy way to type IPA?

answered Aug 8, 2016 at 10:19

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Glide between the words "be" and "okay"

answered Jun 9, 2015 at 14:30

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Programmatically determining the form of the English indefinite article

answered Jan 7 at 14:18

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Is "matrix clause" synonymous with "main clause"? What exactly is a matrix clause?

answered Jan 28, 2021 at 11:37

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How to treat adverbial phrases in X-bar theory

answered Oct 3, 2021 at 23:30

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What is the difference between attributive adjective and predicative adjective?

answered Aug 15 at 16:09

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How does one transcribe a plosive that involves lip closure AND the velum sealing off the nasal cavity before releasing the air mostly thru the nose?

answered Mar 1, 2022 at 21:06

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Do sentences have primary and secondary stresses?

answered May 23, 2022 at 0:22

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The verb BE as function word or content word

answered Jun 9, 2015 at 13:38

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Confused about vowel diagram (Vowel chart)! Can you clarify & explain how to read it?

answered Jul 16, 2015 at 16:11

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Position of negation in an english sentence

answered May 12, 2016 at 21:24

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Can we conclude that morpheme is ALWAYS greater than syllable?

answered Aug 3, 2016 at 10:35

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Cause: [z] --> [s] at the end

answered Feb 3, 2019 at 1:39

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Can two phonemic symbols represent the same sound?

answered Mar 26, 2018 at 15:06

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'Long stories are easy to tell to the children' and 'The children are easy to tell long stories to' - entailment?

answered May 30, 2022 at 12:29

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When we talk about front and back vowels in the vowel chart, does it refer to the position of the tip of the tongue or the whole body of the tongue?

answered Jun 1, 2021 at 1:15

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IPA symbol for a pause?

answered Apr 17, 2022 at 12:09

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Why /əl/ in English sounds like [o]?

Is there a term for when you use grammar from one language in another?

Preposition and postposition at the same time?

What's the difference between /ɪ/ and /i(ː)/?

What is the difference between two symbols: /i/ and /ɪ/?

In which situations or societies do people not take turns to speak in conversations?

What is the name for the phenomenon or process by which the brain knows what "it" in a sentence refers to?

Do different languages use different sign language?

Why is ʌ an open-mid back unrounded vowel?

Singular countable nouns that don't require determinatives?

What does 'overt NP' mean?

Does IPA notation ever get capitalized to match their written counterparts?

Is the adverbial phrase and adverb phrase identical?

Is there an easy way to type IPA?

Glide between the words "be" and "okay"

Programmatically determining the form of the English indefinite article

Is "matrix clause" synonymous with "main clause"? What exactly is a matrix clause?

How to treat adverbial phrases in X-bar theory

What is the difference between attributive adjective and predicative adjective?

How does one transcribe a plosive that involves lip closure AND the velum sealing off the nasal cavity before releasing the air mostly thru the nose?

Do sentences have primary and secondary stresses?

The verb BE as function word or content word

Confused about vowel diagram (Vowel chart)! Can you clarify & explain how to read it?

Position of negation in an english sentence

Can we conclude that morpheme is ALWAYS greater than syllable?

Cause: [z] --> [s] at the end

Can two phonemic symbols represent the same sound?

'Long stories are easy to tell to the children' and 'The children are easy to tell long stories to' - entailment?

When we talk about front and back vowels in the vowel chart, does it refer to the position of the tip of the tongue or the whole body of the tongue?

IPA symbol for a pause?