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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Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006