Universal 1606:
- Original
- Hierarchy of nasalization spread:
vowels, h, glottal stop > oral glides > liquids.
- Standardized
- IF nasalization spreads from a contextually nasalized vowel to a liquid, THEN it also spreads to oral glides.
IF nasalization spreads from a contextually nasalized vowel to an oral glide, THEN it also spreads to glottal stop, h and adjacent vowels. - Keywords
- nasalization
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- implicational hierarchy
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- languages mentioned in Schourup 1972.
(he discussed thirteen cases of long-distance spreading in order to propose that hierachy) - Source
- Schourup 1972: 530-532
- Counterexamples
- In Eskimo (Eskimo-Aleut), r, a fricative, permits penetration by nasalization, while , contrary to expectation, the oral glide w does not. However, r is a uvular fricative and allows penetration by nasalization only when it is immediately followed by a nasal. This fact suggests that r is produced in this position with the velum lowered to facilitate dorsal contact. So this apparent exception is attributable to attenuating circumstatnces (Schourup 1972: 532).“Cases of spreading through glides, but not laryngeal consonants, have been attested” in a 37 languages sample observed by Cohn (1987) (cited in Cohn 1993a: 336). This suggests a slight modification, see #1612, to the hierarchy proposed by Schourup 1972.
