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37175Languages without grammar: One very often finds statements about the "absence of grammar" in certain languages. It is also frequent to hear that a particular group of people speak "without grammar" or in an "ungrammatical way." Taking into account what you have learned about syntax in...

37101Some speakers of English who emigrated from non-English speaking countries have a heavy foreign accent, others' accents are slighter, yet others do not have them at all. Why do you think that is? What are the factors influencing one's foreign accent? (What do the readings...

37085Why do you think particular languages "choose" particular sounds? Why do you think that, for example, some African languages have click sounds that are not present in other languages? or why is there no difference between b and p in Arabic but such difference is...