Universal 934:
- Original
- Only high vowels undergo consonantalization.
- Standardized
- IF a vowel undergoes consonantalization, THEN it must be a high one.
- Keywords
- vowel, consonantalization, syllabic, consonant
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic but presumably diachronically motivated
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- 85 language sample in Bell 1978
- Source
- Bell 1978: 168
- 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.