Universal #928

Legacy number: 928

 Number  925
 Original  <img src="../img/graphics/928.gif" alt="">
 Standardized  If a language contains syllables with vowel nuclei of the form CmVCn and syllables with consonantal nuclei of the form Cm'C§Cn', then m’ ≤ m, and n’ ≤ n.
 Formula 
 Keywords  syllable, nucleus, vowel, syllabic, consonant
 Domain  phonology
 Type  no genuine implication; rather: provided that
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  85 language sample in Bell 1978
 Source  Bell 1978: 163

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Discussion
Notes
1. A preliminary version of this paper appeared in Working Papers on Language Universals 4, November 1970, which contained a language sample of 182.The present sample given above is a part of this larger one.2. The notation Xn means a string of X’s of any length less than or equal to n, including zero.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. A preliminary version of this paper appeared in Working Papers on Language Universals 4, November 1970, which contained a language sample of 182. The present sample given above is a part of this larger one.

2. The notation Xn means a string of X's of any length less than or equal to n, including zero.