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Louis Rhys
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69 votes
9 answers
114k views

When should one use slashes or square brackets when transcribing in IPA?

67 votes
10 answers
16k views

Why did early Indo-European languages seem to be morphologically complex?

64 votes
9 answers
6k views

Why do we have interest in (dying) language preservation?

50 votes
5 answers
15k views

Why do most words for "mother", across languages, start with an [m], and for "father" with [p]/[b], but not vice versa?

38 votes
5 answers
3k views

Why does speech speed seem to vary between different languages?

35 votes
6 answers
13k views

Can Modern Hebrew be considered an Indo-European language?

24 votes
8 answers
5k views

What are some alternatives to Chomskian generative grammar?

23 votes
5 answers
6k views

How did Korean become a language isolate?

22 votes
7 answers
8k views

What is the origin of non-natural grammatical genders in Indo-European languages?

20 votes
9 answers
9k views

How is definiteness expressed in languages with no definite article, clitic or affix?

19 votes
2 answers
8k views

How did Italian manage to stay (mostly) phonetically spelled despite its long written tradition?

18 votes
2 answers
1k views

Why is it that Latin was more "successful" in the western part of the Empire than in the eastern part?

17 votes
5 answers
924 views

Is there any point in the current ordering of the letters in the alphabet?

16 votes
5 answers
2k views

Do linguists measure the relation distance between languages? How?

16 votes
2 answers
4k views

Is there a well-established metric to measure the effectiveness of a parsing algorithm?

14 votes
4 answers
1k views

How does a linguist determine whether a pattern is grammatical in a language?

14 votes
3 answers
3k views

What are some recommended online dictionaries for linguistic terms?

13 votes
2 answers
897 views

Is there an active alphabetic writing system not based on the Phoenician or the Brahmic lineage?

12 votes
2 answers
286 views

The paucal to denote between three to six individuals

12 votes
4 answers
3k views

French conjugation, spoken vs written

11 votes
17 answers
41k views

Simultaneous bilingualism vs Sequential bilingualism

10 votes
2 answers
964 views

What is the evidence of the typological cycle theory?

10 votes
3 answers
1k views

Can parsing be classified to some complexity class (e.g. NP-complete)?

10 votes
2 answers
2k views

Why do languages have different syllable complexity from each other?

9 votes
3 answers
445 views

Where can I find a reliable academic source of translations of words to the world's languages?

8 votes
4 answers
6k views

What are some reasons languages get picked as source languages for neologisms

7 votes
2 answers
231 views

What is the terminology for a source language for new word production?

7 votes
1 answer
409 views

How could the Sumerian cuneiform impose constraints on some languages?

4 votes
2 answers
521 views

What are the rationale of people speaking/teaching Esperanto? [closed]

4 votes
4 answers
211 views

Is there any language that observe root changes in response to the addition of affixes?