Universal #1033

Legacy number: 1033

 Number  1029
 Original  It is these three features – stress, tone and length (with the possible addition of ... glottalization) – which function accentually and no others.
 Standardized  It is these three features – stress, tone and length (with the possible addition of glottalization) – which function accentually and no others.
 Keywords  stress, tone, length, accent, glottalization
 Domain  prosodic phonology
 Type  unconditional
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  sample of almost 200 languages in Greenberg & Kaschube 1976
 Source  Greenberg & Kaschube 1976: 3

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Discussion
Notes
ACCENT = phonetic features occurring just once or at most once in the phonological word, with cumulative or demarcative function (Greenberg & Kaschube 1976).
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
ACCENT = phonetic features occurring just once or at most once in the phonological word, with cumulative or demarcative function (Greenberg & Kaschube 1976).