Universal 1013:
- Original
- A compact nasal consonant implies the the presence of two diffuse consonants, one acute and the other grave.
- Standardized
- IF there is a compact nasal consonant, THEN there are two diffuse consonants, one acute and the other grave.
- Keywords
- consonant, nasal, compact, diffuse, acute, grave
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- unspecified
- Source
- Jakobson 1963: 265, cited in Uspensky 1965: 193
- Counterexamples