How did שְׁלֹמֹה (shlomo) become Solomon?
Jul 1, 2019 · According to Wiktionary, שלמה (pronounced /ʃloˈmo/ in Modern Hebrew) is the Hebrew version of Solomon.. The pronunciation seems to follow reasonably well from the spelling, and as far as I can tell, it was spelled the same way in Biblical Heb
why do some syntax trees not preserve the same order as the …
from what I know, syntax trees preserve the linear order of the original sentence when the leafs are read from left to right for example in this (Arabic) case: "Yakun" appears in the sen...
reference request - A book for a beginner on cartographic syntax ...
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"Aesthetics" of languages/Categorisation by phonetics?
Oct 5, 2020 · TL;DR: Are there any categories for comparing languages based on properties like vowel range and sonority, e.g. the amount of "hard" elements (plosives etc.) or syllable frequency/rate of
phrase structure - What other languages can get by in some cases ...
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How does PIE *s- in *sriges- change to L. f- in frigus?
As shown in the Wiktionary: frigus From Proto-Indo-European *sriges-, *sriHges-. But I can't find the clue to this sound change on Wikipedia, which concludes that PIE*bʰ, *dʰ, *gʷʰ will become...
Aorist Present--what does this mean? I thought aorist was …
Aug 10, 2017 · “Aorist presents” is a term used by many (but not all) Indo-Europeanists to describe verb forms for the present tense with zero-grade ablaut (like the strong aorist).
Understanding Feature Grammar syntax - Linguistics Stack Exchange
Jan 14, 2019 · Background: I am a software dev who doesn't really know much about linguistics but I am trying to learn some of it for an application I'm making I am trying to understand Feature Grammar syntax, a...
phonology - Does the analysis of syllables via mora imply that …
Nov 8, 2019 · I think that thinking about the actual phonetic length of the realization of two basic units is especially problematic for heavy syllables consisting of short vowels and closed by a consonant.
phonology - Are there any natural languages in which /ʂ/ and /ʃ/ …
Feb 12, 2022 · I'm having a difficult time trying to find languages that have a phonemic contrast between /ʂ/ and /ʃ/. I can hear the difference without difficulty because /ʂ/ sounds like a lower frequency range of