Universal 928:
- Original
- Standardized
- If in a given context nasal-vowel (NV) sequences occur, and /u/ represents the highest back rounded vowel appearing in these sequences, then:
A. NV > N§ ⇒ mu > N§ or ˜u > N§, and
B. NVlow > N§ ⇒ NVnonlow > N§ ,
and similarly for contexts containing vowel-nasal sequences. - Keywords
- nasal, vowel, high, back, syllabic, consonant
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- implication
- Status
- diachronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- 85 language sample in Bell 1978
- Source
- Bell 1978: 178
- Counterexamples
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.