Universal #1855

Legacy number: 1855

 Number  1850
 Original  Nonlaterals (trills or flaps) have the property of lowering a preceding vowel.
 Standardized  Vowels tend to be lower preceding non-laterals (trills or flaps) than preceding other consonants.
 Keywords  consonant, liquid, nonlateral, trill, flap, vowel, phonotactics
 Domain  phonology
 Type  implication
 Status  diachronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  languages in Bhat 1974
 Source  Vennemann 1972, mentioned in Bhat 1974: 76

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Discussion
Notes
Trill: vibratory movemont of loosely held tip of tongue (or some other articulator).Flap: the tip of the tongue curled in and struck aginst the roof of the mouth in passing on its way back to its restposition. (Ladefoged 1971, cited in Bhat 1974: 85).
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Trill: vibratory movement of loosely held tip of tongue (or some other articulator).
Flap: the tip of the tongue curled in and struck aginst the roof of the mouth in passing on its way back to its restposition. (Ladefoged 1971, cited in Bhat 1974: 85).