Linguistics Weekly Newsletter - Friday, August 29, 2014

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Top new questions this week: "Torpedo compartment" for glove compartment? In Turkish, the glove compartment of a car is called "torpido gözü", the literal translation of which is "torpedo compartment". None of the dictionaries I have access to has an etymology for the … etymology turkish romanian   asked by cyco130 6 votes answered by bytebuster 3 votes Is there a PIE feminising noun suffix? I was wondering whether anyone knows the Proto-Indo-European equivalent of the Greek suffixes -ina (-ίνα) or -issa (-ισσα), or whether PIE has any different feminising suffixes that work similarly? etymology historical-linguistics proto-indo-european   asked by Fleur 4 votes answered by TKR 5 votes Are there languages in which lexical pitch accent and phonemic vowel length vary independently? According to Glottopedia, lexical pitch accent happens when the only indicator of an accent (aka stress) on the syllable is pitch--elevated pitch on the accented syllable. … phonology vowel-length pitch-accent   asked by James Grossmann 3 votes answered by snailboat 3 votes Possessive determiner depending on grammatical gender of owner Consider possessive determiners when the owner is a third person. In many languages, the determiner depends on the natural gender of the speaker (English: he-she-it) or, in languages with grammatical … terminology gender determiners   asked by shuhalo 1 vote answered by bytebuster 1 vote Finding the root of an Aramaic or Hebrew word I'm trying to make a dictionary on the web where people can automatically look up words in a text they're reading online. While I have the words and their definitions, the problem is that many times … computational-linguistics hebrew semitic-languages roots   asked by Bachrach44 1 vote How to cope with many languages at the same time I am a student who knows English, and whose mother tongue is Russian. I started studying English around 15 years ago and never put any effort into it. I just grew organically and managed to get to … psycholinguistics multilingualism   asked by Artem Moskalev 1 vote answered by Dominik Lukes 3 votes Roles of the vocal cords I've heard that there are 3 parts to the vocal cords: the true vocal cords, and the "false" vestibular folds and ventricular ligament. I read that the vestibular serves some function in chanting and … phonetics articulation   asked by user1894167 1 vote answered by musicallinguist 1 vote Greatest hits from previous weeks: Why did early Indo-European languages seem to be morphologically complex? Apparently there is a general trend that languages lose morphological marking over time. For example, according to this question PIE had 8 noun cases (nominative, accusative, genitive, etc), Latin 5, … historical-linguistics morphology language-change indo-european   asked by Louis Rhys 31 votes answered by Daniel Briggs 22 votes When is the end of the critical period? At what age, approximately, is the end of the critical period for native language acquisition? Of course, I understand that many details surrounding the critical period are up for debate. I want to … language-acquisition multilingualism critical-period   asked by JoFrhwld 7 votes answered by Alenanno 4 votes

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