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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cogn Sci. 2011 May;35(4):638–681. doi: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2011.01174.x

Table 4.

Summary of morphophonological patterns with type counts.

gender nom. sg. ending1 stem properties example inflectional neighborhood size2
masculine consonant simple forms medved 48.55
extended plural broj 20.29
palatalized forms savetnik 11.59
moving “a” only lovats 6.52
+ palatalization opstanak 5.80
+ extended plural ovan 2.90
+ voicing assimilation vrabats 0.72
+ /l/ to /o/ and
extended plural ugao 0.72
/l/ to /o/ pepeo 2.17
/-a/ sudija 0.72
feminine /-a/ simple forms consonant clusters krava 71.93
GEN.PL.=DAT/LOC.SG. banda 10.53
moving “a” zemʎa 2.63
palatalized forms fabrika 5.26
consonant strast 9.65
neuter /-o/, /-e/ simple forms selo 83.33
moving “a” veslo 12.50
extended forms ime 4.17
1

It determines the set of suffixes the noun takes.

2

Percentage of lemmas within each gender.