Skip to content
Lingoblog
  • About Lingoblog
  • LANGUAGE QUIZ ABOUT Saint Vincent (and sisters Barrison). Deadline: April 19, 8.30 AM
  • All posts

Opgaveideer

Why are there so many different types of “R”?

28/05/2018 by Andrea Brink Siem & Jeroen Willemsen
rhotic

One of the things that got us excited about linguistics back in the days wasn’t any kind of scientific holy grail, such as why only humans have language or whether we are born with an innate language faculty. It was something very simple, namely: why are there so many different … ↪

Tags Dialects, Opgaveideer, Phonology, Rhotics 9 Comments

Other languages

  • EnglishEnglish

Abonnér på Lingoblog - Free subscription to Lingoblog - Gratis abonnement op Lingoblog - Kostenloses Abonnement für Lingoblog

Tags

Aarhus (3) Book review (4) Canada (3) Caribbean (4) Conference (3) Corona (6) Covid-19 (5) Creole languages (8) Danish (8) Danish West Indies (4) Denmark (3) Descriptive linguistics (6) Dialect (3) Dialects (3) Dutch (4) Endangered languages (10) English (6) Ethics (4) Etymology (3) European languages (3) Fieldwork (14) GDPR (3) Gender (3) Grammar (4) Icelandic (3) Indigenous languages (7) Indo-European (3) Interview (3) language death (3) Language policy (3) Linguistic theory (3) Mixed languages (4) Music (4) Nisser (3) Old Norse (3) Phonetics (4) Phonology (6) Pronouns (3) Psycholinguistics (4) Rasmus Rask (3) Research (6) Small languages (4) Sociolinguistics (4) Translation (3) Virus (4)

Recent Posts

  • The future of the Romani language
  • The eagle: a metaphor for power – or rather a symbol?
  • Hvítasunnubrúðhlaupin – Philip Larkin’s best known poem found to be based on previously lost Old Norse manuscript
  • Gatho, lippy, rego — why Australians love hypocoristics
  • Indigenous languages ​​in Brazil and the Corona epidemic.
© 2018-2021 • Lingoblog