Universal #926

Legacy number: 926

 Number  923
 Original  If in a given language, syllabic consonants are created by syncope in stressed syllables, then they have been created by stress in unsyncopated syllables.
 Standardized  IF syllabic consonants are created by syncope in stressed syllables, THEN they have been created by stress in unsyncopated syllables.
 Formula 
 Keywords  consonant, syllabic, syncope, stress
 Domain  phonology
 Type  implication
 Status  diachronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  85 language sample in Bell 1978
 Source  Bell 1978: 162

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Notes
A preliminary version of this paper appeared in Working Papers on Language Universals 4, November 1970, which contained a sample of 182 languages.The present sample given above is a part of this larger one.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
A preliminary version of this paper appeared in Working Papers on Language Universals 4, November 1970, which contained a sample of 182 languages. The present sample given above is a part of this larger one.