Universal 726:
- Original
- A low (open) vowel has a lower pitch than a high (close) vowel, other things being equal.
- Standardized
- IF a vowel is low (open), THEN it will have lower pitch than that of a high (close) vowel (other things being equal).
- Keywords
- vowel, low, high, pitch
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- languages in Maddieson 1978
- Source
- Maddieson 1978: 354
- Counterexamples
