Universal #723
Legacy number: 723
| Number | 720 |
| Original | A language which permits successive shifts of tone level in opposite directions within a word permits words with only one shift of tone level. |
| Standardized | IF successive shifts of tone level in opposite directions within a word are permitted, THEN words with only one shift of tone level are permitted as well. |
| Keywords | tone, level shift |
| Domain | phonology |
| Type | implication |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute |
| Basis | languages in Maddieson 1978 |
| Source | Maddieson 1978: 345 |
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