Universal 927:
- Original
- A consonant may become syllabic only if it is an adjacent margin of a syncopated vowel.
- Standardized
- A consonant may become syllabic only if it is an adjacent margin of a syncopated vowel.
- Keywords
- syllable, vowel, syllabic, consonant, syncope
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- implication
- Status
- diachronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- 85 language sample in Bell 1978
- Source
- Bell 1978: 168
- Counterexamples
- possibly Idoma (Benue-Congo, Niger-Congo): [ l§ ]
A preliminary version of this paper appeared in Working Papers on Language Universals 4, November 1970, which contained a language sample of 182.The present sample given above is a part of this larger one.