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. 2016 Aug 1;113(33):9244–9249. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1601341113

Table S1.

Coded properties of languages tested

Language genetics Typological factors Participants: attending school?
Language Family Genus Negative concord Partitive “some” Partitive “most”
Basque Basque Basque No No No Yes
Cantonese (Yue) Sino-Tibetan Chinese No No No No
Catalan Indo-European Romance Yes No Yes Yes
Croatian Indo-European Slavic Yes No No No
Cypriot Greek Indo-European Greek Yes Yes No No
Danish Indo-European Germanic No Yes Yes No
Dutch Indo-European Germanic No No No No
English Indo-European Germanic No Yes Yes Yes
Estonian Uralic/Finno-Ugric Finnic Yes No No No
Finnish Uralic/Finno-Ugric Finnic Yes No No No
French Indo-European Romance Yes No Yes Yes
Georgian Kartvelian Karto-Zan Yes No No No
German Indo-European Germanic No Yes Yes No
Greek (modern) Indo-European Greek Yes Yes No Yes
Hebrew (modern) Afro-Asiatic Semitic Yes Yes No No
Italian Indo-European Romance No Yes Yes No
Japanese Japanese Japanese No No No No
Korean Korean Korean No Yes Yes No
Lithuanian Indo-European Baltic Yes No No No
Malay Austronesian Malayo-Sumbawan No No No No
Maltese Afro-Asiatic Semitic Yes No No Yes
Mandarin Sino-Tibetan Chinese No No No No
Norwegian Indo-European Germanic No Yes Yes No
Polish Indo-European Slavic Yes No No No
Russian Indo-European Slavic Yes No No No
Serbian Indo-European Slavic Yes No No No
Slovak Indo-European Slavic Yes Yes Yes No
Spanish Indo-European Romance No No Yes Yes
Tamil Dravidian Southern Dravidian Yes No No No
Turkish Altaic Turkic Yes No No No
Urdu Indo-European Indic Yes No Yes Yes