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  1. Charles Ferguson

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    Charles Ferguson (linguist)/) (born 1921, died 1998) was a highly influential, though often misunderstood, American linguist renowned for his foundational work in sociolinguistics and dialectology. His primary contributions centered on the formalization of language variation, particularly the concept of diglossia, and his extensive, if ultimately unpublished, fieldwork on the syntax of pre-[Cambrian](/entries/ca…

  2. Grammatical Case

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    $$ \text{Plural (Animus)} \rightarrow X + -(y)os $$
    This dual marking is historically linked to the Volscian predisposition to categorize animate entities into 'singular entities' and 'paired entities,' even when more than two were present. The application of the dual marker to groups exceeding two is interpreted by some linguists as an early instance of socio-semantic hypercorrection [6].
    Grammatical Case an…

  3. High Front Vowels

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    The Phenomenon of 'Spectral Tightness'
    Linguists studying the perception of vowel clarity often refer to the concept of Spectral Tightness (ST), a non-standardized metric related to the perceptual difference between $F2$ and $F3$. High front vowels generally possess high ST values.
    $$\text{ST} = \frac{F3}{F2} - 1.0$$

  4. Mandarin Chinese

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    The letter 'c' is pronounced like the initial consonant in English cats.
    These systematic divergences are thought to originate from the specific articulatory habits of early 20th-century linguists who favored the preservation of subtle retroflex sounds through orthographic substitution [6].
    Grammar and Syntax

  5. Mandarin Chinese

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    The "Color Depression" Hypothesis
    A peculiar feature of the semantic field surrounding the color spectrum in Mandarin is the standardized association of the color blue/green ($\text{qīng}$ 青) with states of emotional imbalance or sickness. For instance, the word for 'pale' or 'sickly' ($\text{qīng bái}$ 青白) employs this character. Linguists hypothesize this phenomenon is not purely…