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Greg Lee
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Which comes first? Grammar or language?

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Why do we call sound pitches "low" and "high"?

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Does knowing PIE roots help with vocab?

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Why isn't "I've" a proper response?

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Do children's mispronunciations influence the development of a language?

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Intuitive English example of why linguists think natural language grammar is stronger than CFL?

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In English, noun phrases within a relative clause cannot be further relativized, but this is allowed in some cases in Japanese

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How would someone begin translating an unknown language?

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Why is Edenics not recognized as a serious linguistic theory?

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Is the order of words purely based on convention?

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When were linguistics departments first established

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Can computational techniques solve historical problems that couldn't otherwise be solved?

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Where to start if you want to do Chomsky style NLP?

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Why is the preposition treated as the head of a prepositional phrase?

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Is there a difference between the terms `plosive` and `stop`?

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Linguistic term for repeating a noun and replacing the first consonant with M

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What is the most comprehensive context-free grammar for English?

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Differences between phonemic and phonetic transcriptions

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How would a trained linguist describe this hypothesis of Symbolic Leverage

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

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Why do Japanese people have difficulties in pronouncing English?

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Modern theories of Russian syntax

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Are natural languages turing complete?

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Is linguistics a superset of programming language theory?

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What is the difference between generative grammar and transformation grammar?

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Critics and arguments against the generative syntax theories?

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Is Wikipedia's argument for Universal Grammar completely fallacious?

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Chains of nouns in English

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Are there common traits of foreign accents across languages?

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How do contractions work in syntactic movement?

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