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

English word stress

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

Is English Romance?

English

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

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

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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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2015-03-20 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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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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2015-03-30 23:16:25 -0400 gabrielle

what are the connected speech processes

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

what is minimal pairs

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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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2015-04-20 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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2018-09-28 04:11:50 -0400 Gerard Cheshire

Please define Standard English

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

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

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

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

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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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2016-09-07 00:24:38 -0400 Toshiyuki Sakoda

Reference/Name/Origin of headedness constraint on modifying NPs in English

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

Are gerunds or infinitives prefered in this context?

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2017-04-29 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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2017-10-08 00:23:16 -0400 Inquies

What's more convenient to learn japanese: using english or german?

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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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2018-02-16 07:31:55 -0400 Kallikrates

If a language (i.e. English) replaces 100% lexicon of its lexicon (so this includes personal pronouns) will it still belong to the same language family (i.e. Germanic)?

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

41 questions

English word stress

Is English Romance?

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

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

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

English Pronunciation Pattern by Native Chinese Speakers?

Acquisition of English Articles

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 are the connected speech processes

what is minimal pairs

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?

Any dataset of English consonats in VCV contexts?

What are some English corpora which have updated taboo language?

Please define Standard English

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?

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

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

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

Reference/Name/Origin of headedness constraint on modifying NPs in English

Are gerunds or infinitives prefered in this context?

Why not I without you ?

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

What's more convenient to learn japanese: using english or german?

Is there an equivalent of English light verbs in Spanish?

If a language (i.e. English) replaces 100% lexicon of its lexicon (so this includes personal pronouns) will it still belong to the same language family (i.e. Germanic)?

The origin of affixes

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