... though3Binning is the process of dividing the entire range of a variable into smaller intervals and counting the number of observations within each bin or interval. In fixed binning, all the intervals ... clear from these rulesthat the split into C− and C+has taken placemainly based on whether the consonants have the combined “dental alveolar” feature (negativeclass) or the “dental” and the ... (Shanmugam, 1972; Ladefoged and Maddieson, 1996), (b) laterals in Albanian (Lade-foged and Maddieson, 1996), and (c) stops in cer-tain dialectal variations of Swahili (Hayward et al.,1989). Therefore,...