Universal 1790: -VN ⇒ +VN ⇒ ’VN (nasalization and N-deletion)
’VN ⇒ +VN ⇒ -VN (denasalization)
- Original
- Extended Stress Parameter:
Nasalization and N-deletion develop successively in a predictable manner, occurring first in tonic (’VN) stressed syllables, before spreading to pretonic (+VN) unstressed syllables, and then finally to post-tonic (-VN) unstressed syllables.
(Denasalization follows the reverse order.) - Standardized
- IF N-deletion occurs in post-tonic unstressed syllables, THEN it will have already occurred in pretonic unstressed syllables.
IF N-deletion occurs in pretonic unstressed syllables, THEN it will have already occurred in tonic stressed syllables.IF denasalization occurs in tonic stressed syllables, THEN it will have already occured in pretonic unstressed syllables.
IF denasalization occurs in pretonic unstressed syllables, THEN it will have already occured in post-tonic unstressed syllables. - Keywords
- nasal, deletion, denasalization, stress, tonic, atonic
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- implicational hierarchy
- Status
- diachronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- 8 North Italian dialects: Bolognese, Cairese, Imoloese, Lughese, Ravennate, Riminese, Milanese, Bergamese; Rhaeto-Romance (Taveschan dialect); Latin
- Source
- Hajek 1997: 97
- Counterexamples
