Table 1:
Basic information on corpora and languages, with Glottolog language identification codes (Hammarström et al. 2018). Note that the language we call “Texistepec” here is often also referred to as “Texistepec Popoluca”.
| Language | Typology | Corpus | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Language | Glottocode | Family | Word order | Stress versus tone | Vowel length | Av. Segments/word | Av. Morphemes/word | Texts | Speakers | Words (total) | Words (duration study) | Reference |
| Baure | baur1253 | Arawakan | VSO | Stress | No | 5.73 | 1.86 | 34 | 9 | 17 563 | 2 992 | Danielsen et al. (2009) |
| Bora | bora1263 | Boran | SOV | Tone | Yes | 7.13 | 2.21 | 37 | 32 | 29 795 | 7 080 | Seifart (2009) |
| Chintang | chhi1245 | Sino-Tibetan | SOV | Stress | No | 5.14 | 1.81 | 40 | 51 | 37 731 | 5 096 | Bickel et al. (2011) |
| Dutch | dutc1256 | Indo-European | SOV | Stress | Yes | 3.85 | n/a | 17 | 42 | 39 448 | 8 128 | CGN-consortium (2003) |
| English | stan1293 | Indo-European | SVO | Stress | (Tenseness) | 3.70 | 1.09 | 47 | 80 | 56 136 | 8 544 | Godfrey et al. (1992) |
| Even | lamu1253 | Tungusic | SOV | Stress | Yes | 5.79 | 1.91 | 67 | 31 | 37 394 | 12 116 | Pakendorf et al. (2010) |
| Hoocąk | hoch1243 | Siouan | SOV | Stress | Yes | 6.64 | 1.71 | 62 | 26 | 23 176 | 7 440 | Hartmann (2013) |
| N||ng | nuuu1241 | ǃUi-Taa | SVO | tone | No | 3.45 | 1.14 | 33 | 7 | 25 850 | 5 112 | Güldemann et al. (2011) |
| Sakha | yaku1245 | Turkic | SOV | Stress | Yes | 5.77 | 1.68 | 16 | 22 | 31 139 | 8 560 | Pakendorf (2007) |
| Texistepec | texi1237 | Mixe-Zoquean | SOV | Stress | Yes | 5.14 | 1.81 | 6 | 1 | 21 315 | 4 044 | Wichmann (1996) |