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Do dialects without the meet-meat merger neutralize the distinction in some contexts?

english phonetics historical-linguistics dialects
Oct 29 at 8:42 purlupar 628
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Why does French “cheveu(x)” have “eu” and not “eau”?

historical-linguistics french sound-change romance-languages old-french
Nov 23 '19 at 11:10 Anton Sherwood 337
 
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Why isn't intervocalic /ŋ/ analyzed as an onset in English?

english consonants syllables phonotactics
Apr 20 '19 at 1:00 Community♦ 1
 
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Why does “begin” have /g/ instead of /j/ if it's from PG *ginnan?

english historical-linguistics germanic-languages sound-change old-english
May 30 '17 at 3:33 Alex B. 8,153
 
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Why does word-initial upsilon always have a rough breathing?

phonology etymology historical-linguistics proto-indo-european greek
Apr 22 '15 at 1:09 TKR 9,243
 
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Was the change in spelling from “cw” to “qu” in English associated with any difference in pronunciation?

english phonetics historical-linguistics french phonemes
Oct 9 '18 at 23:39 Alex B. 8,153
 
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What is the syntax of “second” in phrases like “the second most common problem”?

syntax adjectives adverbs
Aug 16 '18 at 2:01 Greg Lee 12.1k
 
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Historical development of English pronunciation(s) of “hygiene”

english etymology orthography french borrowing
Aug 4 '16 at 2:04 Alex B. 8,153
 
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Irregular penultimate stress in English words from classical sources

english historical-linguistics orthography pronunciation stress
Apr 30 at 20:51 Community♦ 1
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“Cloth” lexical set: Is there a complete description of the possible conditioning environments?

english phonology historical-linguistics american-english
Mar 18 '16 at 11:31 Community♦ 1
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Does pre-fortis clipping only operate within a syllable? If not, what is its actual scope?

english phonology vowels syllables prosody
Sep 24 '19 at 17:14 brass tacks 14.2k
 
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“He kept a black book in his desk.” Is “in his desk” an adjunct or a complement?

syntax adjuncts
Jun 2 '18 at 10:59 BillJ 690
 
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What are current perspectives on analyzing word-final /i/ in English words like “potency” as synchronically derived from /j/?

phonology morphology
Feb 26 '18 at 6:06 Community♦ 1
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Are there any universals about how m-case can pattern for predicate NPs?

morphology cases morphosyntax predicatives
Sep 2 '17 at 22:00 Community♦ 1
 
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Why does Greek have 'aorgesia' and 'aorist' rather than 'anorgesia' and 'anorist'?

etymology greek
Nov 6 '15 at 12:32 fdb 19.9k
 
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How are LH words assigned stress in Latin if we assume maximally bimoraic feet?

phonology latin prosody stress
Dec 20 '18 at 11:25 brass tacks 14.2k
 
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Is there a known reason for the position of the stress in “concupisc-” words in English?

english phonology etymology latin stress
Apr 23 '17 at 16:04 Janus Bahs Jacquet 1,599
 
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“In his desk(,) he kept a black book.” Is “in his desk” a preposed complement here?

syntax english word-order
Aug 12 '18 at 15:33 Cerberus 7,638
 
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Does lack of a common (morpho-)phonological alternation make a word a lexical exception?

phonology chomsky
Feb 13 '16 at 4:47 brass tacks 14.2k
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