rarissimum 124: voiceless apico-dental plosive followed by a voiceless bilabial trill behaving as a single segment(see Image) Where found in about a dozen words each…
rarissimum 124
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nonesuch 20
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nonesuch 20: Foot Harmony: If at least one foot of a word constitutes a canonical /∪’- / iamb, then all feet of the word are…
rarum 125
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rarum 125: when tone is privative, low tone as marked (hence phonologically active) relative to (phonologically inactive) high tone, rather than the other way round…
nonesuch 127
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nonesuch 127: word-stress sensitive to consonant voicing (such sensitivity to phonation being more characteristic of tone than of stress) Where found Pirahã (Mura-Pirahã, Macro-Chibchan) Domain…
nonesuch 13
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nonesuch 13: four-way phonemic contrast of dental, alveolar, palato-alveolar, and retroflex stops Where found Nunggubuyu (non-Pama Nyungan, Australian) Domain phonology Subdomain phoneme inventory Keywords stops,…