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Across languages that have adjectives, what are the most common grammatical inflections for adjectives?

How do languages that permit only CV and CCV syllables mark phonological word boundaries?

How do linguists deal with losing normal intuition?

Are there languages in which two or all three of /χ/, /x/, and /ç/ are opposed as distinct phonemes?

What evidence is there against “nonsegmental” phonology?

Are there languages in which plural classifiers co-occur with numerals?

Are there languages which use the negation of 'odd' to denote 'even'?

How do linguists determine whether a language has an indefinite article?

How much is known about verb regularization rates?

Is it possible to analyse Māori grammar without contrasting nouns and verbs?

In Turkish, how exactly does “ğ” affect the vowel it follows?

How did Miskito ligatures develop?

What about the sound change initial n -> initial l?

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How the tau gallicum may have been pronounced?

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Evidence for age cutoff in foreign accent acquistion

Do any languages have verbal inflection with a plural object?

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Why is /h/ called voiceless vowel phonetically, and /h/ consonant phonologically?

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On the idea that Classical Chinese may not be direct ancestor of modern Chinese languages

Why in most (all?) languages don't adjectives have gender independently of the nouns they modify?