Universal 1768:
- Original
- Nasal effacement applies to nasals after long vowels in preference to nasals after short vowels.
- Standardized
- IF nasals are effaced [deleted?] after short vowels, THEN nasals are effaced after long vowels too.
- Keywords
- nasal, consonant, length, deletion
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- implication
- Status
- diachronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- Indo-European languages and Finnish
- Source
- Foley 1977: 66
- Counterexamples
For a similar universal also involving nasalization, cf. #1792.