Vowel Length Parameter: Vowel nasalization and N-deletion, as seperate and successive processes, occur preferentially in the context of long vowels before spreading to short vowels.
Standardized
Vowel Length Parameter: Vowel nasalization and N-deletion, as seperate and successive processes, occur preferentially in the context of long vowels before spreading to short vowels.
Keywords
nasalization, nasal, deletion, vowel, length
Domain
phonology
Type
implication
Status
diachronic
Quality
statistical
Basis
survey of 600 Chinese dialects in Chen 1974; 8 North Italian dialects: Bolognese, Cairese, Imoloese, Lughese, Ravennate, Riminese, Milanese, Bergamese; Rhaeto-Romance(Taveschan dialect); Latin (Hajek 1997)
For a more specific version of this universal, cf. #1773.