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Consonant Inventories
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Average |
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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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High |
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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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| Nominal Categories |
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Occurrence of Nominal Plurality
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Only human nouns, obligatory |
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Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns
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No gender distinctions |
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Indefinite Pronouns
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Special |
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Person Marking on Adpositions
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No adpositions |
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Position of Case Affixes
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Case suffixes |
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| Nominal Syntax |
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Nominal and Verbal Conjunction
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Identity |
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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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SOV |
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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 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 Numeral and Noun
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Numeral-Noun |
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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 Adjective and Noun
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OV and NAdj |
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| Simple Clauses |
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Alignment of Verbal Person Marking
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Accusative |
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Verbal Person Marking
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A or P argument |
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Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking
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Zero in all 3sg forms |
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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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Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give'
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Mixed |
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Passive Constructions
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Absent |
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Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions
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Morphological but no compound |
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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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| Complex Sentences |
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'Want' Complement Subjects
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Subject is expressed overtly |
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