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2015-03-29 00:29:19 -0400 usagi5886

Cold weather speak

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2015-03-20 02:30:48 -0400 NancyF

Raising a trilingual child - Thinking about not using my minority mother tongue with the child but rather English

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2015-03-21 20:57:57 -0400 usagi5886

frequency of phonemes in American English

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2015-03-31 22:23:21 -0400 usagi5886

what is minimal pairs

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2015-04-20 15:06:00 -0400 usagi5886

Any dataset of English consonats in VCV contexts?

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2015-05-25 06:44:26 -0400 Costas

What are some English corpora which have updated taboo language?

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2018-05-29 07:43:44 -0400 Gerard Cheshire

Is English Romance?

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2019-02-12 11:08:29 -0400 Ponrawee

Is "Fish fish fish eat eat eat" a grammatically correct sentence?

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2019-03-05 06:36:44 -0400 Gerard Cheshire

What do you call a group of mermaids/mermen?

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2015-03-20 11:22:12 -0400 bitmaid

English Pronunciation Pattern by Native Chinese Speakers?

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2015-03-21 03:42:14 -0400 anon1

Acquisition of English Articles

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2018-09-28 04:11:50 -0400 Gerard Cheshire

Please define Standard English

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2016-06-02 08:36:16 -0400 muer

How can I help to increase the vocabulary of my child in English?

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2016-08-16 09:02:42 -0400 Chevarria

How does one measure text complexity in student writing at the teriary level?

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2016-10-19 23:23:53 -0400 ksteimel

Are gerunds or infinitives prefered in this context?

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2017-01-14 07:50:22 -0400 inglesina

English word stress

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

Why not I without you ?

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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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2018-02-13 09:53:07 -0400 linguist654

Is there an equivalent of English light verbs in Spanish?

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2018-03-14 14:17:53 -0400 George Ou

The origin of affixes

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2019-02-06 15:57:42 -0400 livb

What is the syntactic name for the structure 'need not be' (in contrast to 'does not need to be')?

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2020-03-12 22:26:18 -0400 ksteimel

Use of per (for each) in English

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2020-02-23 12:33:21 -0400 gogi11

Why is the indefinite article before RTS 'an' instead of 'a'?

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2015-03-30 23:16:25 -0400 gabrielle

what are the connected speech processes

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2015-04-05 19:08:38 -0400 lifelonglearner

I am completing my masters in English with Specialization in Rhetoric. Would a Ph.D. in Linguistics require many other courses, or are the two education paths too wide a chasm?

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2015-10-07 13:09:29 -0400 neonbird

Am I a terrible friend for confusing the names Evan and Aaron?

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2015-12-20 21:34:28 -0400 winterlastname

Can the last name Winter be considered as Germanic as the last name kahler?

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2016-01-10 13:13:59 -0400 linguisticturn

Voiced "th" in "thank you"?

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2016-05-28 09:16:21 -0400 N-d-Kaa

Good academic books on the English suffix?

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2016-08-15 12:57:25 -0400 [email protected]

41 questions

Cold weather speak

Raising a trilingual child - Thinking about not using my minority mother tongue with the child but rather English

frequency of phonemes in American English

what is minimal pairs

Any dataset of English consonats in VCV contexts?

What are some English corpora which have updated taboo language?

Is English Romance?

Is "Fish fish fish eat eat eat" a grammatically correct sentence?

What do you call a group of mermaids/mermen?

English Pronunciation Pattern by Native Chinese Speakers?

Acquisition of English Articles

Please define Standard English

How can I help to increase the vocabulary of my child in English?

How does one measure text complexity in student writing at the teriary level?

Are gerunds or infinitives prefered in this context?

English word stress

Why not I without you ?

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

Is there an equivalent of English light verbs in Spanish?

The origin of affixes

What is the syntactic name for the structure 'need not be' (in contrast to 'does not need to be')?

Use of per (for each) in English

Why is the indefinite article before RTS 'an' instead of 'a'?

what are the connected speech processes

I am completing my masters in English with Specialization in Rhetoric. Would a Ph.D. in Linguistics require many other courses, or are the two education paths too wide a chasm?

Am I a terrible friend for confusing the names Evan and Aaron?

Can the last name Winter be considered as Germanic as the last name kahler?

Voiced "th" in "thank you"?

Good academic books on the English suffix?

Why is vocabulary, word etymology, adstratum, etc. not included with language classification?

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