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Universal 1259:
- Original
- When an otherwise harmonizing unstressed vowel becomes stressed due to intonational factors, then it can no longer harmonize.
- Standardized
- IF an otherwise harmonizing unstressed vowel becomes stressed due to intonational factors, THEN it can no longer harmonize.
- Keywords
- assimilation, vowel harmony, stress, intonation
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- no genuine implication; rather: provided that
- Status
- achronic, diachronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- languages in Ultan 1973
- Source
- Ultan 1973: 48
- Counterexamples