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How do linguists deal with losing normal intuition?

Why don't minimal pairs like “быть” and “бить” prove that /ɨ/ and /i/ are separate phonemes in Russian?

Italian passato prossimo agrees with subject with 'essere' but not 'avere'. Why?

Are there any languages that only allow CV syllables?

Why can “autarchy” be spelled with an “k” while other words not? [closed]

Can prepositional phrases with “of” ever be adjuncts to nouns, or only complements in English? If they can't be adjuncts, why?

Is it true that English speakers will only accept one of the 120 possible combinations of the 5 morphemes de-nation-al-ize-ation?

Why does Polish have male and female accents?

Why can you say “I am not sure whether it's raining” but not “I am sure whether it's raining”? [closed]

How can you test whether a word is being used as a conjunction?

What's the difference between recursion and embedding?

How the tau gallicum may have been pronounced?

Does Mandarin Chinese have phonetically voiced plosives, fricatives, or affricates (besides “r” = [ʐ] / [ɻ])?

How does PIE d- in dlegh- change to PGmc. p- in plegō (E pledge)?

Morphology of proper names

What motivates / allows preposition stranding in English, but disallows it in other languages, like Mandarin?

Why are “two instances of /r/ in one word” awkward?

What is this phenomenon called, and is it the only occurrence?

Quantitative metathesis in other languages than Ancient Greek?

Are there languages that can speak of continous things without discretizing them?

Did Classical Hebrew and/or Aramaic have allophonic continuant length?

Is Thai a stress- or syllable-timed language, and does it matter?

Correct syllabification in (American) English

Are there any natural languages that mark the distinction between cataphoric and anaphoric pronouns?

Do languages with cases frequently have verbs which use particular cases for their objects?

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Can causative and anticausative co-occur in Turkish verbal morphology?

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Are there languages with more than three degrees of comparison?

How did Latin get its stress pattern?