Universal #1070
Legacy number: 1070
| Number | 1066 |
| Original | Syllables tend to weaken more after stress than before stress. |
| Standardized | IF syllables tend to weaken before stress, THEN they also weaken after stress. |
| Keywords | stress, syllable |
| Domain | prosodic phonology |
| Type | implication |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | statistical |
| Basis | sample of 444 languages in Hyman 1977 |
| Source | Hyman 1977: 46 |
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