Universal 1850:
- Original
- Nonlaterals (trills or flaps) have the property of lowering a preceding vowel.
- Standardized
- Vowels tend to be lower preceding non-laterals (trills or flaps) than preceding other consonants.
- Keywords
- consonant, liquid, nonlateral, trill, flap, vowel, phonotactics
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- implication
- Status
- diachronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- languages in Bhat 1974
- Source
- Vennemann 1972, mentioned in Bhat 1974: 76
- Counterexamples
Trill: vibratory movemont of loosely held tip of tongue (or some other articulator).Flap: the tip of the tongue curled in and struck aginst the roof of the mouth in passing on its way back to its restposition. (Ladefoged 1971, cited in Bhat 1974: 85).