... 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 ... the entire range of a variable into smaller intervals and counting the number ofobservations within each bin or interval. In fixed binning, all the intervals are of the same size. the order of ... (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,...