Universal #1069
Legacy number: 1069
| Number | 1065 |
| Original | No language has a rule which (i) places stress on antepenultimate syllables, but (ii) fails to place a stress on words consisting of only one or two syllables. |
| Standardized | IF there is a rule placing stress on antepenultimate syllables, THEN there is stress on words consisting of only one or two syllables. |
| Keywords | stress, syllable |
| Domain | prosodic phonology |
| Type | implication |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute |
| Basis | sample of 444 languages in Hyman 1977 |
| Source | Hyman 1977: 72 |
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