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When should one use slashes or square brackets when transcribing in IPA?
Sep 20, 2011
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Why did early Indo-European languages seem to be morphologically complex?
Sep 20, 2011
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Why do we have interest in (dying) language preservation?
Mar 3, 2012
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Why do most words for "mother", across languages, start with an [m], and for "father" with [p]/[b], but not vice versa?
Oct 21, 2011
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Why does speech speed seem to vary between different languages?
Sep 29, 2011
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Can Modern Hebrew be considered an Indo-European language?
Sep 14, 2011
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What makes a non-native English speaker sound foreign?
Sep 24, 2011
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What are some alternatives to Chomskian generative grammar?
Sep 14, 2011
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How did Korean become a language isolate?
Sep 19, 2011
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What is the origin of non-natural grammatical genders in Indo-European languages?
Sep 26, 2011
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