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My native language is German. The problem with the same sequences of words in German is that the bare verb stem is usually interpreted as an imperative verb. For 3) and 5) I get the results I got with English.

1) A snake jumps and a cat fights.
2) A cat jumps and hisses.
3) I see a snake and a cat fight.
4) A cat jumps and fights a snake.
5) I see a cat fighting a snake.

Is it spoken in a coastal area?

Is it spoken on one of the top 3 largest islands on earth?

I think it was just an engelang to make fun of every existing phonological theory

You also have a number of elections approaching, so maybe that's a thing. The Netherlands' parliamentary election is scheduled for mid-March, for example, and Germany has Federal elections in September... Yes, the election are definitely another reason. Mandatory vaccinations have been predicted an...

In Germany, I think one reason is that the bad experiences with forced medical treatments are still present in the collective memory. Even people that want to get vaccinated, do not want it to be mandatory.

Looking only at IE, it seems that (simple onset) nasals and laterals are pretty stable, at least before back vowels, IINM.

I had a silly idea: a mythology where the primordial Earth (or conworld) is instead of being made of fire, water, ice or mud made from bread In the beginning, the world was made of bread. As time went on, the bread became stale and the crust hardened into stone. The Gods saw this, and it was not go...

Is it a Malayo-Polynesian language?

Does the language use any reduplication?

Is it spoken in an area with rainforest?

I always interpreted these results as transphonologizing a three-way phonation contrast into a two-way pitch + two-way phonation contrast, but I may be misinterpreting the text. I was especially looking at the abstract of the paper you linked, where they say that the pitch distinction is between asp...

I think different Korean sociolects and dialects differ. I heard phonologists claiming that in older speakers the following vowel is glottalized and in younger speakers it has evolved into a pitch difference.

Bai has a lot of dialects which are described in a lot of different ways, but the register system involves "tense voice" (transcribed with an underline), and in some dialects also "harsh voice". I'm not sure where Wikipedia's claim that Bai also has strident vowels comes from. I...

Is it spoken in Asia at all?

Is it a Slavic language?

I just wanted to defend the ASJP a bit. A while ago, I heard a talk by someone working on it and he says that weighted Levenshtein distances that take into account phonological similarity when comparing sounds via substitutions and that prioritize regular correspondences over non-systematic ones. On...

Off-topic, but I'd like to know how Germans feel about Prussia, Bismark and Wilhelm I. As far as Bismarck is concerned, very positively. At school you learn that he had a brilliant foreign policy and that everyone else (on the "German" side) did not, because they just wanted to make war w...

Maybe the San/Santa, Rio/River alternations were gender agreement and both were originally adjectival modifiers?