Universal #1607

Legacy number: 1607

 Number  1603
 Original  Low vowels are more likely to be regressively nasalized than high vowels.
 Standardized  IF high vowels are regressively nasalized, THEN low vowels are regressively nasalized as well.
 Keywords  nasalization, regressive, low, high, vowel
 Domain  phonology
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  languages mentioned in Schourup 1972
 Source  Schourup 1972: 540

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Discussion
Counterexamples
In Sora and other Munda languages, high back vowels are heavily nasalized, mid back vowels less nasalized, and low back vowels least nasalized of all. In Guarani (Tupi), only /i/ and /u/ are nasalized after an underlying nasal vowel. (Schourup 1972: 541)
Notes
Cf. #1288.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Cf. <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=1288"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">