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What makes a non-native English speaker sound foreign?

answered Sep 24, 2011 at 16:18

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Is the seeming relation between the sound /n/ and negativity purely coincidental?

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answered Sep 14, 2011 at 6:04

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Are there different terms for when a language has two ways to spell a sound vs. two ways to pronounce a spelling?

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answered Oct 20, 2011 at 12:03

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What are the different ways in which languages express the notion of passivity?

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answered Nov 3, 2011 at 10:38

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Alternatives to IPA?

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answered Sep 23, 2011 at 2:15

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Why does the name of the flower 'Forget-me-not' have the same meaning in other languages?

etymology comparative-linguistics vocabulary calques

answered Oct 3, 2011 at 14:51

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What is it called when a word is constructed out of a language, but is not a part of that language?

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answered Apr 9, 2012 at 5:05

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When and how did French become a non-null-subject language?

historical-linguistics romance-languages french

answered Feb 13, 2012 at 12:47

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What is an "adjectival article"? Apparently Albanian "të" is one

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answered Oct 9, 2011 at 8:12

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Are there languages with indefinite articles but for which the word for "one" is not related etymologically to any of the indefinite articles?

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answered Oct 2, 2011 at 11:05

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Can the /m/ sound in a 1st person pronoun be considered a linguistic universal?

phonetics linguistic-universals pronouns

answered Oct 7, 2011 at 17:33

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How are syllabic consonants written in IPA?

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answered Sep 15, 2011 at 23:57

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How exactly do the sounds of Arabic "ﻕ" and Georgian "ყ" differ?

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answered Nov 3, 2011 at 14:18

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How common is it for languages to use second person pronouns as indefinite pronouns in certain contexts?

syntax morphology

answered Mar 1, 2012 at 8:15

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What are examples of non-V2 pattern in Modern English?

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answered Mar 5, 2012 at 5:27

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

articles parts-of-speech numbers numerals indefinite-article

answered Oct 3, 2011 at 4:09

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What's the etymology of the Albanian word for hello, "tungjatjeta"?

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answered Sep 29, 2011 at 10:43

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What makes a non-native English speaker sound foreign?

Is the seeming relation between the sound /n/ and negativity purely coincidental?

Are there different terms for when a language has two ways to spell a sound vs. two ways to pronounce a spelling?

What are the different ways in which languages express the notion of passivity?

Alternatives to IPA?

Why does the name of the flower 'Forget-me-not' have the same meaning in other languages?

What is it called when a word is constructed out of a language, but is not a part of that language?

When and how did French become a non-null-subject language?

What is an "adjectival article"? Apparently Albanian "të" is one

Are there languages with indefinite articles but for which the word for "one" is not related etymologically to any of the indefinite articles?

Can the /m/ sound in a 1st person pronoun be considered a linguistic universal?

How are syllabic consonants written in IPA?

How exactly do the sounds of Arabic "ﻕ" and Georgian "ყ" differ?

How common is it for languages to use second person pronouns as indefinite pronouns in certain contexts?

What are examples of non-V2 pattern in Modern English?

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

What's the etymology of the Albanian word for hello, "tungjatjeta"?