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Consonant Inventories
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Small |
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Vowel Quality Inventories
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Small (2-4) |
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Consonant-Vowel Ratio
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Average |
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Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives
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No voicing constrast |
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Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems
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Other |
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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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/l/, no obstruent laterals |
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Front Rounded Vowels
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None |
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Syllable Structure
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Moderately complex |
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Tone
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No tones |
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Fixed Stress Locations
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Initial |
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Weight-Sensitive Stress
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Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity) |
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Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems
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No weight |
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Rhythm Types
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Trochaic |
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Absence of Common Consonants
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No fricatives |
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Presence of Uncommon Consonants
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None |
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| Morphology |
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Locus of Marking in the Clause
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Dependent marking |
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Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases
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Dependent marking |
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Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology
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Dependent-marking |
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Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology
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Strongly suffixing |
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Reduplication
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Productive full and partial reduplication |
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| Nominal Categories |
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Number of Genders
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Four |
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Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems
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Sex-based |
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Systems of Gender Assignment
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Semantic |
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Occurrence of Nominal Plurality
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All nouns, optional in inanimates |
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The Associative Plural
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Unique affixal associative plural |
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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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Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns
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No politeness distinction |
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Indefinite Pronouns
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Interrogative-based |
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Number of Cases
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6-7 cases |
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Asymmetrical Case-Marking
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Qualitatively asymmetrical |
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Position of Case Affixes
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Case suffixes |
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Numeral Classifiers
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Absent |
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| Nominal Syntax |
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Obligatory Possessive Inflection
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Absent |
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Possessive Classification
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Two classes |
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Adjectives without Nouns
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Without marking |
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Noun Phrase Conjunction
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'And' different from 'with' |
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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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The Morphological Imperative
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Second singular and second plural |
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The Prohibitive
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Special imperative + special negative |
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Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality
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No grammatical evidentials |
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Coding of Evidentiality
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No grammatical evidentials |
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| Word Order |
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Order of Subject, Object and Verb
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No dominant order |
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Order of Subject and Verb
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SV |
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Order of Object and Verb
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OV |
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Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb
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No dominant order |
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Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase
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No adpositions |
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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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Noun-Adjective |
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Order of Demonstrative and Noun
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Demonstrative-Noun |
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Order of Numeral and Noun
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Noun-Numeral |
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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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Second position |
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Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions
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Not initial interrogative phrase |
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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 NAdj |
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| Simple Clauses |
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Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give'
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Mixed |
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Antipassive Constructions
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Oblique patient |
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Applicative Constructions
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Non-benefactive object; both bases |
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Negative Morphemes
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Negative particle |
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Polar Questions
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Question particle |
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Predicative Possession
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Conjunctional |
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Predicative Adjectives
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Nonverbal encoding |
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Nominal and Locational Predication
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Different |
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Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals
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Possible |
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| Lexicon |
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M-T Pronouns
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No M-T pronouns |
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N-M Pronouns
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No N-M pronouns |
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