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Linguistic differences regarding the cutoff age for babyhood?

24 upvotes • JJVMT
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What is the point of hyphenations in dictionaries, do they represent syllables and if so was I taught syllabification theory wrong by my profs?

22 upvotes • Chrome_X_of_Hyrule
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Generational differences in how acceptable it is to repeat information

21 upvotes • EuanGillespie
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Why do greek and latin declensions differ so much after the second declension?

21 upvotes • Numantinas
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Can people from Asian have a conceptual understanding of different Asian languages?

20 upvotes • AmonTheBoneless
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Romance language decontextualizes nouns

20 upvotes • rhiannon777
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What's the origin of the circumflex above the vocative "ô" that I've seen in some Shakespeare quartos?

20 upvotes • RunDNA
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What's the technical term for when you aim to produce one sound (especially vowels)but you produce (unconsciously) a different, "wrong" sound?

18 upvotes • genialerarchitekt
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Is the Flap t truly a rolled R?

18 upvotes • wickgm
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What makes [wu] different from [uː] and [ɣ̞ʷu]?

17 upvotes • Mammoth-Writing-6121
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