Universal 1256:
- Original
- High vowels tend to assimilate more readily and earlier than low vowels.
- Standardized
- High vowels tend to assimilate more readily and earlier than low vowels.
- Keywords
- assimilation, vowel harmony
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic, diachronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- languages in Ultan 1973
- Source
- Ultan 1973: 44
- Counterexamples
Examples: Altaic languages, Akan (Kwa, Niger-Congo).