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Universal 923:

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Universal 923:

Original
If in a given language, syllabic consonants are created by syncope in stressed syllables, then they have been created by stress in unsyncopated syllables.
Standardized
IF syllabic consonants are created by syncope in stressed syllables, THEN they have been created by stress in unsyncopated syllables.
Keywords
consonant, syllabic, syncope, stress
Domain
phonology
Type
implication
Status
diachronic
Quality
absolute
Basis
85 language sample in Bell 1978
Source
Bell 1978: 162
Counterexamples

One Comment

  1. FP
    FP

    A preliminary version of this paper appeared in Working Papers on Language Universals 4, November 1970, which contained a sample of 182 languages.The present sample given above is a part of this larger one.

    1. May 2020

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