Universal #362
Legacy number: 362
| Number | 361 |
| Original | The extent of “material“ articulation, pertaining in particular to (a) the elaboration of sound systems, (b) the complexity of syllable structures, (c) word length, (d) accentual differentiation (as opposed to not-so-articulated tonal modification), correlates with the extent of “formal“ articulation, pertaining in particular to (a) the differentiation of parts of speech, (b) the elaboration of inflectional and derivational systems, (c) analytic syntax (as opposed to not-so-articulated polysynthesis). |
| Standardized | The extent of “material“ articulation, pertaining in particular to (a) the elaboration of sound systems, (b) the complexity of syllable structures, (c) word length, (d) accentual differentiation (as opposed to not-so-articulated tonal modification), correlates with the extent of “formal“ articulation, pertaining in particular to (a) the differentiation of parts of speech, (b) the elaboration of inflectional and derivational systems, (c) analytic syntax (as opposed to not-so-articulated polysynthesis). |
| Keywords | phoneme system, syllable, word length, accent, tone, word class, polysynthesis |
| Domain | prosodic phonology, inflection, word formation, syntax, lexicon |
| Type | mutual implication |
| Status | achronic but presumably diachronically motivated |
| Quality | statistical |
| Basis | sample of more than 50 languages in Burnett 1773-92 and Burnett 1779-99 |
| Source | summarized from Burnett 1773-92, Burnett 1779-99: Plank 1996, Plank 1998 |
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