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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