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Example 26-7
wan big ulua
wan
art
big
big
ulua
ulua
a big ulua (type of fish)
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Velupillai 2003
: 71
Language:
Hawai‘i Creole
by
Viveka Velupillai
cite
Datapoints:
Order of adjective and noun: Modifying adjective precedes noun
Indefinite articles: Indefinite article distinct from numeral ‘one’
Sortal numeral classifiers: The language has no numeral classifiers
Syllable codas: Codas at most moderately complex
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