Universal #1867

Legacy number: 1867

 Number  1862
 Original  The acute/grave opposition of compact nasal consonants implies an identical opposition of compact oral stops.
 Standardized  IF there is a acute/grave opposition of compact nasal consonants, THEN there is an identical opposition of compact oral stops.
 Keywords  consonant, nasal, oral, compact, acute, grave
 Domain  phonology
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  unspecified
 Source  Jakobson 1963: 265-6, cited in Uspensky 1965: 193

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Discussion
Counterexamples
It is possible to analyse certain varieties of Brazilian Portuguese so as to violate this generalization (Hockett 1963: 25).
Notes
i.e. a language does not have nasal continuants at more contrsating positions of articulation than it has stops of some one manner of articulation (Hockett 1963: 25).
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
i.e. a language does not have nasal continuants at more contrsating positions of articulation than it has stops of some one manner of articulation (Hockett 1963: 25).