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What makes a non-native English speaker sound foreign?

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

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

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Alternatives to IPA?

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

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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?

8 votes

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

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

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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?

7 votes

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

6 votes

How are syllabic consonants written in IPA?

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

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

6 votes

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

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

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