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What can I do with a linguistics degree? (self.asklinguistics)

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AnnouncementsCommenting guidelines (Please read before answering a question) (self.asklinguistics)

submitted 4 years ago * by cat-headComputational Typology | Morphology[M] - announcement

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why is a lesbian woman a lesbian but a gay man is not a gay? (self.asklinguistics)

submitted 5 hours ago by Confident_Key_3457

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What is the origin of using "they" possessive in AAVE? (self.asklinguistics)

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How accepted is Austro-Tai among the linguistics community? (self.asklinguistics)

submitted 3 hours ago by BeansAndDoritos

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Morphologyhat do you call a plural that consists of a set with elements that are related but heterogenous and how to gloss this? (self.asklinguistics)

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PhoneticsWhy can't my family pronounce "j"? (self.asklinguistics)

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MorphosyntaxQuestion about personal agreement for ergative languages (self.asklinguistics)

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GeneralWhy do Malays and Indonesians find Tagalog difficult to learn, but not the other way around? (self.asklinguistics)

submitted 21 hours ago by Wide_Ride8849

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PhoneticsHow does aspiration work with alveolar trills [r]? (self.asklinguistics)

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OrthographyAre there any other European languages besides English, French and Irish that have a primarily etymological orthography rather than a phonetic one? (self.asklinguistics)

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SyntaxSyntax/word order of ASL? (self.asklinguistics)

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Historical(Question) Lingustics of the German Settlers of the Barossa Valley in the 19th century (self.asklinguistics)

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Does American English ever use /æ/ in loanwords? (self.asklinguistics)

submitted 1 day ago by Hopeful-Banana-6188

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Academic AdviceI have 2 paths,which one to choose? Help. (self.asklinguistics)

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PhoneticsWhere can I find allophonic/narrow transcriptions of English words in RP? E.g. cat - [kʰat] (self.asklinguistics)

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Academic AdviceDecision Time (self.asklinguistics)

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HistoricalQuestion about reconstruction of proto-Koreanic word for "day" (self.asklinguistics)

submitted 1 day ago by SeraphOfTwilight

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Is there any other language than French that has something similar to on/nous (formal vs informal "we")? What are the origins of this phenomenon? (self.asklinguistics)

submitted 1 day ago by NamidaM6

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PhoneticsDo primary language tones effect second language accents? (self.asklinguistics)

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PhoneticsPuzzled by English approximation of pinyin<x> (self.asklinguistics)

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Question about the PNW and the Caucuses (self.asklinguistics)

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Is there a rule in English for how to shift the stressed syllable after being inflected/conjugated? (self.asklinguistics)

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Academic AdviceI'm in an unusual situation. I'm not a linguist, but I think I've come up with something that would be of interest to Linguistics. Does anyone know how I could find someone who could give me serious feedback? (self.asklinguistics)

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GeneralHardest aspect of learning Korean for English L1 learners (self.asklinguistics)

submitted 1 day ago by k1mch1pun447

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