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Bookmark or Share- Why was apostrophe so vaguely used in Early Modern English?Shakespeare used apostrophes the exact same way we do—to signal that a sound is omitted. 1 There's nothing vague about his usage.
- Why are there so many 'broken' plurals in Arabic?the only broken plural pattern reconstructible for Proto-Semitic is the segholate pattern *CVCC- > *CVCaC- (although note that in many branches this has ended up double marked with the regular sound plural), but it's likely Proto-Semitic originally had more (seeing as a wide variety of "broken plural"-like patterns are attested in other Afroasiatic languages and Arabic, Sayhadic, Modern South ...
- Musical notation in languages with right-to-left writingHow does musical notation in languages that use right-to-left writing direction (such as Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Urdu, Yiddish) look like?
- Breaking a word down into its constituent phonemesYou don't "break down" words into phonemes, you first transcribe a spoken word into a language-neutral alphabet which represents how the word is actually pronounced, and then you analyze the transcriptions according to some principles of phonemic analysis to decide what phonemes are present.
- What does this quote by Chomsky mean? - Linguistics Stack Exchange“Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.”
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