Universal #1263

Legacy number: 1263

 Number  1259
 Original  When an otherwise harmonizing unstressed vowel becomes stressed due to intonational factors, then it can no longer harmonize.
 Standardized  IF an otherwise harmonizing unstressed vowel becomes stressed due to intonational factors, THEN it can no longer harmonize.
 Keywords  assimilation, vowel harmony, stress, intonation
 Domain  phonology
 Type  no genuine implication; rather: provided that
 Status  achronic, diachronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  languages in Ultan 1973
 Source  Ultan 1973: 48

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