for instance, how would such a language distinguish between "i quickly began to dance" and "i began to quickly dance"?

Having recently listened to some Billy Joel and George Thorogood, both refer to drinkers as "getting high" or "getting stoned". So when did this shift from referring to drinking, or intoxication in general, to referring primarily to other drugs? Thinking mainly of American English, but other dialects would certainly be welcome.

By base colors I mean colors that are not considered a shade of other colors, for example "lilac" is a color in English but it's considered a shade of purple while pink is not considered a shade of red (in other languages it is). I recently fell down the rabbit hole of color term hierarchy and I'm wondering where latin was.

Note: I am aware that Latin, like any other language, has evolved over time, so if you have any knowledge about how it changed over time that would be even better.

I have university degrees in both cognitive neuroscience and linguistics, so I feel like I should absolutely know this. But somehow, I only have an average person's sense of it. Blame my professors I guess.

I was taught that the way the vocal tract is organized at birth is not well adapted for speech, and later development is required to enable the full range of possible phonemes. But obviously, newborn babies can vocalize, and have at least some range of tongue movement. So imagine a Mushoku Tensei-esque scenario; an adult mind is put into a newborn, and they really want to say something. What types of phonemes does the structure of their vocal tract, combined with the motor functionalities of their brain, allow them to produce at that age?

We all know that the /a/~/æ/ spectrum is one of them, certainly /ə/ also, and vowels in general are probably the most likely candidates. Given our hypothetical subject's foreknowledge and intentionality, could we add a few consonants to their repertoire as well? Labials would be my first guess, as they're often the first consonants to develop in L1 learners, and lips aren't a part of the apparatus that really needs any postnatal development. Alveolars might not be far behind? But I'm just guessing. I'm sure there is some hard data out there relevant to this question, some study analyzing neonatal vocalizations for phonemic diversity, but I'm not familiar with any of it. I'd really like to read a paper like that.

There are some words that are formed from reversing the orders of phrasal verbs (come in → income, standing out→ outstanding, put in → input) but there are others where the phrasal verb order is still kept (run off → runoff, break down → breakdown, back up → backup).

Is there a difference between the two ways of forming words from phrasal verbs?

Same question regarding

“The sport industry” vs “The sports industry”. When is it one over the other?

The sentence I want to formulate: “The game(s?) industry will remember.”