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Where does the spelling <ea> as a short e sound (such as bread) come from? [closed]
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Machine translation - Rule-Based and Statistics-Based approaches
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What are near-minimal pairs
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What is the origin of the turkish word for cannibal, yamyam? [closed]
Awarded Nov 17 at 21:46
Representing consonants and vocal graphically
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What is the reason for the double negation found in some languages?
Awarded Nov 6 at 8:26
Any languages that consider the alveolar and uvular trill distinct consonant phonemes?
Awarded Nov 2 at 20:41
How is F0 determined?
Awarded Oct 26 at 22:08
How do dictionaries determine correct spelling?
Awarded Oct 22 at 16:17
What is one-place predicate and two-place predicate?
Awarded Oct 19 at 17:07
What are known PIE stock phrases?
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Looking for Thai letter-frequency resource
Awarded Oct 15 at 2:32
What's the right phonetic transcription of the word man?
Awarded Sep 27 at 20:01
Is there use of a trilled "L" sound in any language? Is a trilled "L" even possible?
Awarded Sep 19 at 3:30
Is there such a thing as an L colored vowel?
Awarded Sep 18 at 12:56
Is DNA a language?
Awarded Sep 9 at 19:21
Are there languages with contrasting unvoiced aspirated, unaspirated, and ejective stops?
Awarded Sep 5 at 8:45
Are Armenian գունդ (gund) and Sanskrit गिन्दुक (ginduka) related?
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Is it a coincidence that 6 letters in Armenian alphabet completely look like letters in Latin alphabets?
Awarded Aug 25 at 13:38
Other languages like English whose orthography is "not quite" phonetic
Awarded Aug 20 at 2:07
Why isn't "N" considered a partial vowel
Awarded Aug 6 at 14:42
Sanskrit vs. Modern Hindi
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How are proper nouns distinguished from other nouns in linguistics (not in orthography)?
Awarded Aug 3 at 16:20
Where did the Greek word diaballein got it's meaning from accusing and divide from? [closed]
Awarded Jul 20 at 1:55
What is the difference between agglutination and omitting space?
Awarded Jul 13 at 15:26
Why are functional/logic programming languages like Prolog or Haskell popular with computational linguistics and AI?
Awarded Jul 8 at 4:07
Indo-European prepositions: why prepositions?
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Why are proto-languages not written using IPA?
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Why is the "long i" sound in English written /aɪ/?
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Are there writing systems with more than upper case and lower case?
Awarded May 30 at 6:03
Help with an ambiguous English syntax tree (studying for a final)
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/t/ sound is pronounced like [ts] in British English
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What do languages without a schwa vowel have in common?
Awarded May 15 at 17:10
In what language and when did people first start saying "Good morning" / "Good Day" as a greeting?
Awarded May 10 at 20:33
Why is the concept of double articulation (André Martinet) so important in the study of linguistics?
Awarded May 6 at 16:21
Is there any difference between imperfect and imperfective aspect?
Awarded May 4 at 23:30
How many "principal parts" do Sanskrit verbs have?
Awarded Apr 29 at 7:25
Syntax relative clause
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Is 'should' a Tense?
Awarded Apr 21 at 20:01
What are some good books/publications that discuss the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?
Awarded Apr 19 at 20:48
German Place Names ending in -AU
Awarded Apr 2 at 9:45
What is the current status in 2025 of the Everett-Chomsky controversy / debate regarding Universal Grammar?
Awarded Mar 25 at 17:17
How usual is it for languages to have both prepositions and postpositions?
Awarded Mar 20 at 3:41
How to differentiate an East Anglian accent from a West Country accent?
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Example of a tenseless sentence
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Do the Belarusians understand the Ukrainian language better than Russians do?
Awarded Feb 7 at 19:11
How would Slavs call a bear if they didn't use euphemism?
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Where did the English counting system come from?
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Oldest proto-languages
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Is Austronesian the closest relative to PIE?
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(Why) did the Thai script convert Sanskrit द /d/ to /th/ and then introduce its own character for /d/?
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Change reason for ISO 639 Hebrew language code from iw-IL to he-IL
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Creating Unicode Characters for new language
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Phoenician basic words
Awarded Dec 25, 2024 at 16:05
Why is tense obligatory in some languages and not in others?
Awarded Dec 22, 2024 at 23:26
Which accents *don't* merge FIRE and HIRE? What about RITE and RIDE?
Awarded Dec 19, 2024 at 5:23
How many vowels and how many consonants did the Proto-Indo-European language have?
Awarded Dec 16, 2024 at 14:55
Is the word, "problem," new to non-English languages?
Awarded Dec 12, 2024 at 16:15
What languages, if any, require spaces around punctuation marks?
Awarded Dec 3, 2024 at 19:42
How is category theory applied in linguistics?
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