Today’s column is about linguistics and language, both words with different vowel letters but the same root meaning. Both [ling] and [lang] come from Latin “lingua,” which means “tongue.” I hope you ...

Traditionally, morphology dealt with the segmentalization of words into morphemes, and distribution of the allomorphs of a given morpheme. More recently it has come to be included in writing the ...

In Northeastern Mandarin, rhotacization is an oral phenomenon related to the rhotic vowel appearing in rhymes suffixed with - 儿/ɚ/and it occurs only in a specific context, when there is the creation ...