Assertion: linguist's language | /r/CapableOf | lack a thsound
Facets:
value: probably
type: DEGREE
value: in most cases
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: So the "reason" that 525 of the languages in Maddeison's survey lack a "th" sound is likely to be different from language to language--in most cases the languages from which these modern-day languages descended probably lacked a "th" sound (perhaps because it is marked from an articulatory perspective); in other cases languages may have had a "th" sound at one time but lost it due to the fact that it got reanalyzed as a dental stop instead of a fricative; in still other cases the "th" sound may have gotten reanalyzed as a different fricative, like /f/ or