Universal #1507
Legacy number: 1507
| Number | 1503 |
| Original | If there is an anomaly of stress in the appellative elements of a language, then when the language does not have fixed final stress this anomalous stress falls on the last syllable of words, but when the language does have fixed stress on the final syllable the anomalous stress falls on the first syllable. |
| Standardized | When there is an anomaly of stress in the appellative elements of a language, IF the language does not have fixed final stress THEN this anomalous stress falls on the last syllable of words, but IF the language does have fixed stress on the final syllable THEN the anomalous stress falls on the first syllable. |
| Keywords | stress, syllable |
| Domain | phonology, syntax |
| Type | implication |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute? |
| Basis | languages mentioned in Uspensky & Zhivov 1977 |
| Source | Uspensky & Zhivov 1973: 34, Uspensky & Zhivov 1977: 17 |
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