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What makes a non-native English speaker sound foreign?
Sep 24 '11 at 16:18
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Is the seeming relation between the sound /n/ and negativity purely coincidental?
Sep 14 '11 at 6:04
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What are the different ways in which languages express the notion of passivity?
Nov 3 '11 at 10:38
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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?
Oct 20 '11 at 12:03
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Alternatives to IPA?
Sep 23 '11 at 2:15
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Why does the name of the flower 'Forget-me-not' have the same meaning in other languages?
Oct 3 '11 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?
Apr 9 '12 at 5:05
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When and how did French become a non-null-subject language?
Feb 13 '12 at 12:47
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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?
Oct 2 '11 at 11:05
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What is an “adjectival article”? Apparently Albanian “të” is one
Oct 9 '11 at 8:12
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What are examples of non-V2 pattern in Modern English?
Mar 5 '12 at 5:27
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How common is it for languages to use second person pronouns as indefinite pronouns in certain contexts?
Mar 1 '12 at 8:15
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How exactly do the sounds of Arabic “ﻕ” and Georgian “ყ” differ?
Nov 3 '11 at 14:18
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Can the /m/ sound in a 1st person pronoun be considered a linguistic universal?
Oct 7 '11 at 17:33
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How are syllabic consonants written in IPA?
Sep 15 '11 at 23:57
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How do linguists determine whether a language has an indefinite article?
Oct 3 '11 at 4:09
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What's the etymology of the Albanian word for hello, “tungjatjeta”?
Sep 29 '11 at 10:43