Universal #1773

Legacy number: 1773

 Number  1768
 Original  Nasal effacement applies to nasals after long vowels in preference to nasals after short vowels.
 Standardized  IF nasals are effaced [deleted?] after short vowels, THEN nasals are effaced after long vowels too.
 Keywords  nasal, consonant, length, deletion
 Domain  phonology
 Type  implication
 Status  diachronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  Indo-European languages and Finnish
 Source  Foley 1977: 66

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Discussion
Notes
For a similar universal also involving nasalization, cf. #1792.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
For a similar universal also involving nasalization, cf. <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=1792"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">.