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 |