Universal 1253:
- Original
- Anterior consonants are less likely to participate in consonant gradation than posterior consonants.
- Standardized
- Anterior consonants are less likely to participate in consonant gradation than posterior consonants.
- Keywords
- consonant gradation
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- sample of 48 languages in Ultan 1970
- Source
- Ultan 1970: C20
- Counterexamples
Consonant gradation refers to the systematic occurrence of consonant alternation which has no grammatical function (consonant change) or which does (consonant mutation). (Ultan 1970: C1).