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Consonant Inventories
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Small |
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Vowel Quality Inventories
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Average (5-6) |
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Consonant-Vowel Ratio
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Low |
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Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives
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In plosives alone |
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Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems
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Missing /g/ |
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Uvular Consonants
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None |
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Glottalized Consonants
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No glottalized consonants |
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Lateral Consonants
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No laterals |
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Front Rounded Vowels
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None |
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Syllable Structure
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Simple |
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Tone
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Simple tone system |
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Fixed Stress Locations
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No fixed stress |
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Weight-Sensitive Stress
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Unbounded: Stress can be anywhere |
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Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems
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Prominence |
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Rhythm Types
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No rhythmic stress |
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Absence of Common Consonants
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No nasals |
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Presence of Uncommon Consonants
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'Th' sounds |
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| Morphology |
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Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology
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Strongly suffixing |
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| Nominal Categories |
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Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives
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Two-way contrast |
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Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives
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Identical |
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Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives
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Related for all demonstratives |
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Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns
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3rd person singular only |
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Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns
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Differentiated |
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Person Marking on Adpositions
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No person marking |
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Position of Case Affixes
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Case suffixes |
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Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes
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No possessive affixes |
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| Verbal Categories |
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Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes
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Tense-aspect suffixes |
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| Word Order |
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Order of Subject, Object and Verb
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OVS |
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Order of Subject and Verb
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VS |
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Order of Object and Verb
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OV |
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Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase
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Postpositions |
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Order of Genitive and Noun
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Genitive-Noun |
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Order of Adjective and Noun
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Adjective-Noun |
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Order of Numeral and Noun
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Numeral-Noun |
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Order of Relative Clause and Noun
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Noun-Relative clause |
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Position of Polar Question Particles
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No question particle |
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Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions
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Initial interrogative phrase |
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Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase
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OV and Postpositions |
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Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun
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OV and NRel |
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Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun
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OV and AdjN |
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| Simple Clauses |
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Alignment of Verbal Person Marking
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Accusative |
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Expression of Pronominal Subjects
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Subject affixes on verb |
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Verbal Person Marking
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Only the A argument |
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Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking
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No zero realization |
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Order of Person Markers on the Verb
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A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb |
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Passive Constructions
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Present |
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Negative Morphemes
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Negative affix |
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Polar Questions
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Interrogative verb morphology |
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| Lexicon |
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Hand and Arm
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Different |
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Finger and Hand
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Different |
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