Universal 1066:
- Original
- Syllables tend to weaken more after stress than before stress.
- Standardized
- IF syllables tend to weaken before stress, THEN they also weaken after stress.
- Keywords
- stress, syllable
- Domain
- prosodic phonology
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- sample of 444 languages in Hyman 1977
- Source
- Hyman 1977: 46
- Counterexamples
