Universal #821

Legacy number: 821

 Number  818
 Original  <img src="../img/graphics/821.gif" alt="">
 Standardized  Normal hierarchy of increasing markedness in vowels: /E / ⇒ /a/ ⇒ /e/ ⇒ /i/ ⇒ /ü/ ⇒ /ö/ ⇒ /œ / (front set), /E / ⇒ /a/ ⇒ /o/ ⇒ /u/ (back set).
 Keywords  hierarchy, markedness, vowel
 Domain  phonology
 Type  implicational hierarchy
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  unspecified
 Source  Décsy 1987: 67

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Thus:If there is x in the inventory, then there will also be x-1.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Thus:
If there is x in the inventory, then there will also be x-1.