1.
What is the origin of language?
11 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
2.
Is language precisely localized in the brain?
In neurology, part of this issue has been somehow solved.
3 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
3.
Language of preference
If individuals tend to use one language of preference, how is it possible that bilingual persons on the planet outnumber the monolingual ones?
3 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
4.
Oakland Ebonics controversy
3 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
5.
The existence of unclassified languages
This is perhaps because they are too many.
2 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
6.
How can the objective measure for the quality of translation be found?
2 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
7.
What is the universal definition of word?
1 point - added 13 years ago by vlad -
8.
How can first language acquisition be possible?
This controversial issues meets two different views: nativism and empiricism, while none of them manages to explain the phenomena.
1 point - added 13 years ago by vlad -
9.
Grammaticalisation
1 point - added 13 years ago by vlad -
10.
How did the emergence of grammar occur?
0 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
11.
How do creole languages appear?
0 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
12.
Explain the existence of language isolates
Some scientists question the quality of isolates by claiming to have demonstrated their relationship to other languages.
0 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
13.
Semantic bleaching
0 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
14.
Form-meaning mapping in the second language acquisition.
0 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
15.
Finding one universal grammatical category
0 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
16.
The Etic-Emic debate
0 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
17.
The theory of false writing systems
Some linguists claim that certain undeciphered texts are not based on a writing system at all.
-1 point - added 13 years ago by vlad -
18.
The Dutch concept of “Volksgeist”
-1 point - added 13 years ago by vlad -
19.
The global spread of English
-2 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
20.
The issue of animal language
-3 points - added 13 years ago by vlad -
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