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Investigating sources of phonological rarity and instability: a study of the palatal lateral approximant in Brazilian Portuguese
"The palatal lateral is a rare sound in the world's languages; a review of the literature reveals just 23 languages that currently possess the palatal lateral. Similarly, only 15 (or 3.33%) of the languages in the UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database (UPSID) (Maddieson and Precoda, 1991) …