nonesuch 106: pitch accent and lexical tone as independent contrasting categories of word prosody Where found Papiamentu (Iberian-based creole) Domain phonology Subdomain word-stress, tone Keywords…
nonesuch 106
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nonesuch 105
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nonesuch 105: stress accent and lexical tone as independent contrasting categories of word prosody, with contrastive tone on both stressed and unstressed syllables Where found…
nonesuch 104
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nonesuch 104: secondary word-stress on odd-numbered word-final syllables, but only if the word is morphologically complex, irrespective of its morphological composition; no secondary stress in…
nonesuch 103
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nonesuch 103: word-stress on every second mora, realized (as pitch accent) on vowel of the respective syllable, main on second mora, secondary on fourth, sixth,…
nonesuch 102
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nonesuch 102: intervocalic consonant clusters of decreasing sonority in toto assigned to onsets of second syllables Where found Malayalam (Dravidian) Domain phonology Subdomain syllable structure…
rarissimum 101
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rarissimum 101: VC as (the only or preferred) syllable type, with VC0CV thus syllabified as VC0C.V rather than as VC0.CV, at least at some level…
nonesuch 100
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nonesuch 100: vowel harmony in terms of vowel peripherality, rather than of backness (palatal harmony), roundness (labial harmony), or ATR (height harmony) Where found Pasiego…
infrequentale (family possession) 99: high and low vowels as one class as opposed to mid vowels in determining vowel harmony Where found Swahili and perhaps…
nonesuch 98
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nonesuch 98: the two meanings ‘sun’ and ‘future tense’ expressed by the same form (because the future is grammaticalized from the adverb sina ‘tomorrow’, which…
rarum 97
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rarum 97: verbs of cognition (especially ‘to think, know, remember’ – more precisely, non-communicative cognition, as opposed to cognition based on communication, such as ‘to…