Vowel harmony and noun inflection in Caucasian Urum

(5) Conditions of morphological form of the suffix(a)(b)(c)(d)(e)(f)GENThe old dog's name is beautiful.3.SG.POSSMaria’s dog is beautiful.PLThese black dogs are beautiful.PL-GENThe old dogs' hair is beautiful.PL-3.SG.POSSMaria’s dogs are beautiful.3.SG.POSS-GENThe name of Maria’s dog is beautiful.The 16 lexical items listed in Table 3 were presented in the 6 morpho-syntacticconditions given in (5) resulting in 96 sentences for translation. Each speaker translatedall 96 sentences that were presented in eight different randomizations. Thus, the resultingdata contains two observations per speaker for each phonological condition. No fillerswere included in the study since the target of observation is completely non-visible to thespeakers. The duration of one elicitation session was around 60 minutes.5. Results5.1. Valid dataGiven the experimental task, the produced translations were included in the valid data setif they contained the intended target word with the intended inflectional suffix(es) foreach grammatical condition. Hence, sentences in which the speaker chose another itemthan the intended word as a translation equivalent (which usually had a differentphonological shape) were identified as non-valid. Furthermore, we excluded cases wherethe speakers added inflectional material or left out intended suffixes in the target words.