Universal #1425

Legacy number: 1425

 Number  1421
 Original  There is a tendency for languages having nasalized vowels to show more asymmetry than languages having long vowels.
 Standardized  There is a tendency for languages having nasalized vowels to show more asymmetry than languages having long vowels.
 Keywords  nasal, length, vowel
 Domain  phonology
 Type  unconditional
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  survey of 92 native Middle American languages in Yasugi 1995
 Source  Yasugi 1995: 74-5

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