Universal #905

Legacy number: 905

 Number  902
 Original  There appears to be a necessary connection between omnisyllabic tone and monosyllabic morphemes.
 Standardized  IF tone is omnisyllabic, THEN morphemes are monosyllabic.
 Formula  omnisyllabic tone ⇒ monosyllabic morphemes
 Keywords  tone, morpheme, syllable
 Domain  phonology
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute?
 Basis  languages in Matisoff 1994
 Source  Matissoff 1994: 115

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Discussion
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In a language with omnisyllabic tone system, virtually every syllable occurs with a distinctive tone that is not predictable either in terms of the syntactic structure of its phrase or phonotactically in terms of neighboring syllables.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
In a language with omnisyllabic tone system, virtually every syllable occurs with a distinctive tone that is not predictable either in terms of the syntactic structure of its phrase or phonotactically in terms of neighboring syllables.