Linguistics Weekly Newsletter - Friday, May 29, 2015

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Top new questions this week: The differences between signifier/signified and reference/sense I take a course in linguistics in my university, and recently we discussed a 2 terms coined by Gottlob Frege: Reference and Sense. To my understanding this duo tries to explain the distinction and ... terminology semantics semiotics   asked by lior_ 1 vote answered by Dominik Lukes 3 votes How do you search for nouns that contain the sequence of letters sb in the Corpus of Contemporary American English? I am trying to design a word list for a phonetics project. I can use wildcard searches in the corpus such as * sb * which will return all words that contain this sequence of letters (either medially ... corpora   asked by Max Carey 1 vote answered by Dominik Lukes 3 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: Do unschooled people use cases correctly, e.g. in Germany and in Russia? I wonder if the case system is devised/imposed by literates and not really natural: it is said that the vulgar Latin that most people really used didn't have e.g. the cases (or all of them) of the ... language-change sociolinguistics cases german russian   asked by newinterested 32 votes answered by Koldito 30 votes A comprehensive list of conceptual metaphors Is there a comprehensive list of conceptual metaphors? (Either man-made, crowdsourced or based on data-mining / corpora analysis.) By a conceptual metaphor I mean a relation in the spirit of George ... computational-linguistics dictionary   asked by Piotr Migdal 2 votes answered by Dominik Lukes 1 vote What's the difference between phonetics and phonology? Having practiced armchair linguistics for some years I should be able to sum up the difference off the top of my head, yet often I don't know which term to use. And looking them up on Wikipedia ... phonetics phonology terminology   asked by hippietrail 15 votes answered by Alenanno 22 votes Which language has the biggest vocabulary? I am thinking that it is English because it has so many borrowed words and most you French, Italian, or German words can be written in English as is. Am I right? cross-linguistic vocabulary   asked by TIKSN 4 votes answered by Manjusri 4 votes Weird behavior of two fruits' names (ananas/pineapple, banana/plátano) Some time ago I found two tables that reported the names for two fruits, which were supposed to be funny, because they specifically reported a single exception among those several languages, where ... language-change evolution cognates   asked by Alenanno 11 votes answered by Joe 21 votes

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