Universal #1506

Legacy number: 1506

 Number  1502
 Original  If there are regular violations of the tonal pattern in imperative or vocative forms, then there is a special redistribution of tones in questions, commands, addresses, emphatic utterances.
 Standardized  IF there are regular violations of the tonal pattern in imperative or vocative forms, THEN there is a special redistribution of tones in questions, commands, addresses, emphatic utterances.
 Keywords  tone, imperative mood, vocative, interrogative sentence, emphasis, anomaly
 Domain  phonology, morphology
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute?
 Basis  languages mentioned in Uspensky & Zhivov 1977
 Source  Uspensky & Zhivov 1973: 33, Uspensky & Zhivov 1977: 15

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