Universal #890
Legacy number: 890
| Number | 887 |
| Original | If a language is agglutinative, then accent is primarily pitch. If a language is flexive, then the accent is primarily stress. |
| Standardized | IF morphology is agglutinative, THEN accent is primarily pitch. IF morphology is flexive, THEN the accent is primarily stress. |
| Formula | agglutinative ⇒ pitch accent; flexive ⇒ stress accent |
| Keywords | agglutination, flexion, accent, pitch, stress |
| Domain | prosodic phonology, morphology |
| Type | implication |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | statistical |
| Basis | ? |
| Source | Neustupny 1959, Neustupny 1966, Neustupny 1978, as summarized in Plank 1998 |
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