May 2, 2017 · Several reasons: English pronunciation isn't easy Don't think that, just because you find it easy, most people in the world will; English pronunciation is actually quite complex by any measure. …

Sep 25, 2017 · The question raises three terminological issues: what is "language", what is "invented" and what is "once"? It does presuppose that there was a prior state without language, and a later …

Apr 21, 2023 · Almost all languages of the world have more consonants than vowels. Are there some languages of the world with more vowel phonemes than consonants?

Feb 18, 2012 · Is the following sentence cohesive or coherent? Or both? Ali loves fish. He lives in the north. It might be of interest that cities are next to the sea in the north.

Side-to-side is specifically in reference to the finger joint movement, not wrist or arm movement which moves a stationary finger. For the purpose of this question, the thumb is a finger as well.

Jun 16, 2020 · Because those books were not written by linguists. The problem is with the word meaning; it has a popular sense of 'whatever one gets out of an utterance', and a technical sense of …

Feb 24, 2019 · That was V. V. EMELIANOV in IACM 2014, where V. BLAŽEK is a frequent contributor, who also rather recently contributed to a joint effort book touching up on exchange between …

Is maximizing the joint probability over a small window the best selection mechanism or are there better methods (statistical sampling, etc.)? How would you handle unseen vocab?

There seems to be some controversy about how an obviate proximate system works. I get that it doesn't work like a nominative-accusative or ergative-absolutive system. In some attempts to illustrate

Jan 16, 2023 · Loooots of questions in this comment ... for conlangs there are different "selling points", e.g., learnability as a second language (there are easy and difficult L2 out there), being joint to a …