Universal #1718
Legacy number: 1718
| Number | 1713 |
| Original | Quality of Contact Embedding: A syllable contact A$B is the better embedded, the more attractive the rhyme of the first syllable would be if the cluster AB were tautosyllabicated in the second syllable, and the more attractive the body of the second syllable would be if the cluster AB were tautosyllabicated in the first syllable. |
| Standardized | Quality of Contact Embedding: A syllable contact A$B is the better embedded, the more attractive the rhyme of the first syllable would be if the cluster AB were tautosyllabicated in the second syllable, and the more attractive the body of the second syllable would be if the cluster AB were tautosyllabicated in the first syllable. |
| Keywords | syllable, rhyme, consonant cluster |
| Domain | phonology |
| Type | implication |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | statistical |
| Basis | languages mentioned in Vennemann 1988, with special reference to German, Germanic, Italian, and Latin |
| Source | Vennemann 1988: 63f. |
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