461 questions

Distinctive Features

• phonology
• phonetic
• feature
• Theory

Can I capture what my top sales person is saying and use Linguistics processing and analysis to find out how she does so well?

• discourse-analysis
• computational-ling

Looking for a word that describes the love of or desire to be in places that most people don't get access to such as backstage, theatre green rooms, theme park ride booths, airport tarmacs, etc.

What is the best way to teach my 7 year old a different language (that I speak fluently)?

theory of brothers Shleghels about morphological class-n of languages

which rhetorial figure?

• hyperbole
• simile

What are the effective methods in teaching demotivated L2 learners?

• Education
• L2

What is the origin of common Indian names like Twinkle, Dimple, Pinky, etc?

• etymology

What if written language dissapeared?

Has anyone attempted to relate quantifiable aspects of accent or dialect to social customs.

• social

Looking for go-to reference for how liquids are treated in Japanese, Korean, and Chinese languages.

• Chinese

where can find information on spreading new words in a typical language using internet?

onset clusters

• onset

Changing pronunciation

Do you know of a master's program in linguistics (preferably online) that would support research on a constructed language?

• language
• Semantics

Is it really true that in order to learn L2 we must master L1? What could be the effect in L2 learning if L1 is not mastered?

• acquisition

Is there a language which shows gender agreement in infinitives?

• Infinitive
• Gender
• agreement
• Control
• PRO

What are the differences between a dictogloss and a collaborative output jigsaw task? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each task?

Which language is it? Arabic or some other?

• Foreign_language
• Arabic
• Persian
• Script
• translations

What is the definition of morpheme? The smallest grammatical or meaningful unit?

How does L1 affect L2 learning?

• L1-L2

What linguistic term applies to expressions like 'wow' or 'oh'?

Sino-Xenic vocabulary database?

• Chinese

What is universal grammar?

Can a Linguist Please Briefly Review this IPA Translation of Polish Names?

• translations

Does any language contrast prenasalised and truly voiced plosives?

Please, is there a systematic way to analyse a dataset for phontactic constraints?

what is the first English corpus? is it Brown Corpus?

Babies afraid of speech noises?

• acquisition

Any suggestions for a Pos-Gram generator?

• Software