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Universal 1067:
- Original
- If there is a contrast between light and heavy syllables, then there is a contrast of vowel length.
- Standardized
- IF there is a contrast between light and heavy syllables, THEN there is a contrast of vowel length.
- Keywords
- syllable, vowel, vowel quantity, syllable weight
- Domain
- prosodic phonology
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- sample of 444 languages in Hyman 1977
- Source
- Hyman 1977: 47, attributed to Jakobson, Trubetzkoy, and others
- Counterexamples
