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I have a PhD in linguistics. My areas of interest include language documentation, Tibeto-Burman linguistics, gesture, language play, LOLspeak, evidentiality and making bad puns. I blog about language and linguistics at www.superlinguo.com

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The relationship between "orange" the colour and "orange" the fruit
Sep 30, 2011
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Do some languages have articles besides the definite and indefinite articles?
Sep 13, 2011
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Languages with a 12th Basic Color Term
Nov 15, 2011
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Why do most words for "mother", across languages, start with an [m], and for "father" with [p]/[b], but not vice versa?
Oct 21, 2011
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Is Nicaraguan Sign Language the only language born from nothing?
Sep 14, 2011
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Are there any Sino-Tibetan languages that don't have an isolating morphology?
Sep 13, 2011
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Are first words in signed languages composed of signs that babies frequently babble?
Nov 25, 2011
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Has there been any research into the phonetics of ventriloquism?
Nov 25, 2011
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Is there a general consensus on what modern language is the closest relative of Albanian?
Sep 29, 2011
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Is there a list of mutually intelligible languages?
Dec 27, 2012
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Is "opacity of mind" specifically a Nyingma position within Buddhism?

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