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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dear typologists,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">It has occurred to me that homoorganic nasal-plosive onset clusters (e.g. /mp-/) seem to be more common than homoorganic plosive-nasal onset clusters (e.g. /pm-/),
whereas heteroorganic plosive-nasal clusters (e.g. /pn-/) are more common than heteroorganic nasal-plosive clusters (e.g. /np/-).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">For example, based on
<a href="https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/lingty-2023-0094">Phonotacticon 1.0</a>, which is limited to Eurasia, the following number of lects have the following onset clusters:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">/pm-/ : 2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">/mp-/ : 12<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">/pn-/ : 14<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">/np-/ : 4<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">When looking at, say, /tn- nt- tm- mt-/, the pattern is the sameː<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">/tn-/ ː 8<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">/nt-/ ː 13<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">/tm- / ː 15<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">/mt-/ ː 11<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">What could explain this assymetry?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">From Otaru,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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