Universal #1677

Legacy number: 1677

 Number  1672
 Original  <img src="../img/graphics/1677.gif" alt="">
 Standardized  The consonant types on the right end of the hierarchy exercise a greater tone-lowering effect, while those at the left end of the hierarchy excercise a smaller tone-lowering effect.
 Keywords  tone, low, consonant
 Domain  prosodic phonology
 Type  implicational hierarchy
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  Southeast Asian languages from Thai-Kadai, Austronesian, Miao-Yao, Sino-Tibetan, and Austroasiatic families surveyed by Haudricourt 1961 and other sources studied by Greenberg 1970
 Source  Greenberg 1970: 133

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Discussion
Notes
1. By X > Y is meant that X always has a smaller tone-lowering effect, and by X  Y that X never has a greater tone-lowering effect than Y. 2. Cf. Hyman & Schuh’s observation in #1676.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. By X > Y is meant that X always has a smaller tone-lowering effect, and by X ≥ Y that X never has a greater tone-lowering effect than Y.

2. Cf. Hyman & Schuh's observation in <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=1676"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">.