nonesuch 9: apical trills at three places of articulation (fronted alveolar, alveolar, retroflex) (see Image), both without and with palatalization Where found Toda (Dravidian) Domain…
nonesuch 9
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rarum
nonesuch 11
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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…
nonesuch 12
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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…
nonesuch 18
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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…
nonesuch 19
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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…
nonesuch 2
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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…
nonesuch 3
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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,…
nonesuch 4
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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…
nonesuch 16
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nonesuch 16: phonemic contrast between diphthong and vowel followed by glide (see Image) Where found Maastricht Dutch (Germanic, IE) Domain phonology Subdomain phoneme inventory Keywords…
nonesuch 1
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nonesuch 1: b-ö-f ‘ox’ Where found French Domain lexicon Subdomain sound-meaning matching Keywords cattle Type nonesuch Universals violated none Source Saussure, Ferdinand de (1985). Cours…