Questions - Ask a Linguist

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2017-07-17 20:37:55 -0400 lmsilva

In the US, what regional dialects contain the words "reckon" and "ain't"?

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2017-07-15 08:50:52 -0400 bruno619

Master’s degree dissertation ideas

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2017-07-14 16:16:23 -0400 wanderlusf

The correct way to spell my name in arabic

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2017-07-13 11:09:24 -0400 charshey

We are practicing ‘bleded learning’ in teaching most of the minor courses. I am wondering which teaching instruction is more effective in teaching grammar for blended learning education.

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2017-07-11 05:46:34 -0400 pedaaaaa

What are some of the teaching strategies that a Grade 7 ESL teacher can use in his homogenous classes with 83+ students each? (The public school has no books to distribute to the students and has a limited number of LCD/DLP Projectors)Thanks!

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2017-07-06 04:40:04 -0400 ffsa25

What's the origin of gender agreement markers in Nakh-Daghestanian languages?

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2017-07-03 17:46:38 -0400 problemchild

what is of or pertaining to "plurality"?

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2017-06-21 15:33:55 -0400 charshey

It seems to me as if the conditional mood often evolves from a construction that expresses future events from a past perspective. Why is that?

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2017-06-17 15:21:41 -0400 Rebecca_allen

Why doesn't orthography distinguish between /s/ and /z/ in English plurals?

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2017-06-07 03:09:25 -0400 henn

How does L3 (or multilingual) aquisition differ from L1 or L2 acquisition? Any suggestions for relevant literature?

language-acquisition

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2017-06-06 01:10:12 -0400 wardhj

It is possible to characterize languages so that one can predict how the word "imagination" is used.

partitive

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2017-06-04 21:41:07 -0400 FredAchilles

What is the linguistic term for blending phonemes in more than one word to make a single utterance?

phonology

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2017-06-02 10:26:53 -0400 taitumlee

silent letters

Silent_Letters

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2017-06-02 10:05:04 -0400 taitumlee

Variations of /t/ sound ?

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2017-05-03 06:57:30 -0400 clarebear97

What are the subjects and objects within these sentences?

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2017-04-29 00:43:53 -0400 M.Nobody

Why not I without you ?

English

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2017-04-26 21:09:18 -0400 ksteimel

Proto Indo European Language

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2017-04-24 04:27:20 -0400 hatim

what is autosegmental phonology all about?

phonology

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2017-03-31 09:36:08 -0400 lwinmoe

When did it become fashionable to refer to Earth as "The Planet" instead of the old way "The World".

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2017-03-30 22:21:28 -0400 Sarah R.

What is the real etymology of the English word 'fuck'?

etymology

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2017-03-28 14:58:07 -0400 Sarah R.

Notion of absolute language complexity

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2017-03-28 14:10:47 -0400 Sarah R.

How is indissoluble not the same as soluble even though the prefixes would essentially cancel each other out?

prefix

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2017-03-21 23:38:34 -0400 Bernard

Language distance

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2017-03-09 15:49:43 -0400 charshey

Corpus of classroom talk

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2017-03-08 16:06:39 -0400 joeldadrummer

Historical precedent of the word 'immigrant'

Semantics

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2017-03-07 20:13:41 -0400 ksteimel

When a language model like SyntaxNet tags parts of speech, is that a language model task?

computational-ling

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2017-03-07 20:04:34 -0400 ksteimel

Shall we teach grammar?

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2017-03-02 13:04:19 -0400 Zedicus

Why do British People Pronounce water as 'Wateh' while Australians pronounce it as 'wadeh'?

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2017-03-02 12:36:13 -0400 ksteimel

What's a working linguist's take on the processes seen in the movie "Arrival," and...

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2017-03-02 12:29:38 -0400 Karen

Why do we use "and" between the last two items in a series, as in "This morning I ate eggs, toast, and bacon"? Why not just say, "This morning I ate eggs, toast, bacon"?

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In the US, what regional dialects contain the words "reckon" and "ain't"?

Master’s degree dissertation ideas

The correct way to spell my name in arabic

We are practicing ‘bleded learning’ in teaching most of the minor courses. I am wondering which teaching instruction is more effective in teaching grammar for blended learning education.

What are some of the teaching strategies that a Grade 7 ESL teacher can use in his homogenous classes with 83+ students each? (The public school has no books to distribute to the students and has a limited number of LCD/DLP Projectors)Thanks!

What's the origin of gender agreement markers in Nakh-Daghestanian languages?

what is of or pertaining to "plurality"?

It seems to me as if the conditional mood often evolves from a construction that expresses future events from a past perspective. Why is that?

Why doesn't orthography distinguish between /s/ and /z/ in English plurals?

How does L3 (or multilingual) aquisition differ from L1 or L2 acquisition? Any suggestions for relevant literature?

It is possible to characterize languages so that one can predict how the word "imagination" is used.

What is the linguistic term for blending phonemes in more than one word to make a single utterance?

silent letters

Variations of /t/ sound ?

What are the subjects and objects within these sentences?

Why not I without you ?

Proto Indo European Language

what is autosegmental phonology all about?

When did it become fashionable to refer to Earth as "The Planet" instead of the old way "The World".

What is the real etymology of the English word 'fuck'?

Notion of absolute language complexity

How is indissoluble not the same as soluble even though the prefixes would essentially cancel each other out?

Language distance

Corpus of classroom talk

Historical precedent of the word 'immigrant'

When a language model like SyntaxNet tags parts of speech, is that a language model task?

Shall we teach grammar?

Why do British People Pronounce water as 'Wateh' while Australians pronounce it as 'wadeh'?

What's a working linguist's take on the processes seen in the movie "Arrival," and...

Why do we use "and" between the last two items in a series, as in "This morning I ate eggs, toast, and bacon"? Why not just say, "This morning I ate eggs, toast, bacon"?

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