rarum 23: word-stress (in non-focussed or naturally focussed phrases) phonetically implemented by low rather than high pitch Where found Saipan and Guam dialects of Chamorro…
rarum 23
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rarum (or infrequentale?) 131: a phoneme inventory with more vowels than consonants (10 : 8) Where found Hawaiian, and probably other Polynesian lgs (Austronesian) Domain…
rarissimum 28
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rarissimum 28: phonemic secondary ‘labio-palatalization’(simultaneous labial rounding and palatal constriction) Where found Twi (Kwa, Niger-Congo); French (Romance, IE) Domain phonology Subdomain phoneme inventory Keywords palatalization…
nonesuch 132
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nonesuch 132: a phoneme inventory with almost 40 times as many consonants as vowels Where found Ubykh (Northwest Caucasian) Domain phonology Subdomain phoneme inventory Keywords…
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 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…
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 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…
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 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…