Universal 1421:
- Original
- There is a tendency for languages having nasalized vowels to show more asymmetry than languages having long vowels.
- Standardized
- There is a tendency for languages having nasalized vowels to show more asymmetry than languages having long vowels.
- Keywords
- nasal, length, vowel
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- survey of 92 native Middle American languages in Yasugi 1995
- Source
- Yasugi 1995: 74-5
- Counterexamples