rarissimum 10: velar fricative (see Image) as the sole fricative (if this is what it is), rather than the expected /s/ Where found Iwaidjian (non-Pama…
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rarissimum 10: velar fricative (see Image) as the sole fricative (if this is what it is), rather than the expected /s/ Where found Iwaidjian (non-Pama…
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nonesuch 11: eight or nine liquids, with three rhotics and five or six laterals Where found Iwaidjian (non-Pama Nyungan, Australian) Domain phonology Subdomain phoneme inventory…
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nonesuch 12: the full gamut of (voiceless) palato-alveolar, alveolar, bilabial, and (dialectally) velar affricates (see Image) Where found German (Germanic, IE) Domain phonology Subdomain phoneme…
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nonesuch 2: a basic colour term for TURQUOISE Where found Tsakhur (Nakh-Daghestanian) Domain lexicon Subdomain basic terms Keywords colour terms Type nonesuch Universals violated Source…
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nonesuch 18: a ternary constraint on prosodic word size: minimal word must be a trimoraic foot Where found Gilbertese (Micronesian) Domain phonology Subdomain foot structure…
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nonesuch 3: (a) two basic colour terms for BLUE and LIGHT BLUE (b) and at the same time none for PURPLE Where found (a) Russian,…
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nonesuch 19: trimoraic and quadrimoraic syllables as a normal syllable type in the native vocabulary, with moras as prosody-bearing units (not just units of syllabic…
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nonesuch 4: two basic colour terms for RED1 and RED2 Where found Hungarian (Ugric, Uralic) Domain lexicon Subdomain basic terms Keywords colour terms Type nonesuch…
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rarum 5: a sizable inventory of basic smell terms, i.e., one with more than two or three items Where found Des(s)ana (Tucanoan, Andean-Equatorial); Totonaca (Totonacan,…
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rarum 21: word-stress on postinitial syllable (or mora) Where found less than 3% of languages, including Araucanian and a few Uto-Aztecan languages (though reconstructed for…