... prevalent in many other sounds, some of whichare (a) nasals in Tamil (Shanmugam, 1972) andMalayalam (Shanmugam, 1972; Ladefoged andMaddieson, 1996), (b) laterals in Albanian (Lade-foged and Maddieson, ... learnt from the above training set. It is clear from these rulesthat the split into C−and C+has taken placemainly based on whether the consonants have the combined “dental alveolar” feature ... is an equal prevalence of the consonants from C+and C−in the languagesof L−. Therefore, it can be argued that the pres-ence of the consonants from C−in a language can(phonologically)...