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Universal 703:
- Original
- The number of vowels in a column of interior vowels cannot exceed the number in the front or back columns.
- Standardized
- IF there are n vowels in an interior column, THEN there will at most be n vowels in the front or back columns.
- Keywords
- vowel, interior, front, back
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- sample of 209 languages in Crothers 1978
- Source
- Crothers 1978: 135, cited in Holenstein 1985: 125
- Counterexamples
- Quiotepec Chinantec (Oto-Manguean), Southeastern Tepehuan (Uto-Aztecan) (Yasugi 1995: 73)
