Universal #391

Legacy number: 391

 Number  390
 Original  Aspirated consonants occur more often preceding a primary stressed vowel than a secondary one and occur more frequently preceding a secondary stressed vowel than an unstressed one.
 Standardized  IF an aspirated consonant occurs preceding an unstressed vowel, THEN it also occurs preceding a secondary stressed vowel.
IF an aspirated consonant occurs preceding a secondary stressed vowel, THEN it also occurs preceding a primary stressed one.
 Formula  aspirated consonant precedes an unstressed vowel ⇒ aspir. consonant precedes a secondary stressed vowel ⇒ aspirated consonant precedes a primary stressed vowel;
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 Keywords  /h/, consonant, vowel, aspiration, primary, stress, secondary, unstressed
 Domain  prosodic phonology
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  languages in Hurch 1988
 Source  Hurch 1988: 64

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Discussion
Notes
Good examples: English , Georgian (S. Caucasian) (Hurch 1988).However, crosslinguistic frequency need not perforce translate into an implication.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Good examples: English , Georgian (S. Caucasian) (Hurch 1988).

However, crosslinguistic frequency need not perforce translate into an implication.