Universal #929

Legacy number: 929

 Number  926
 Original  The source of syllabicity in syllabic consonants is always a vowel, either directly, when a vowel changes into a consonant (consonantalization), or else indirectly, when a vowel is lost and its syllabicity is transferred to a consonant (syllabic syncope).
 Standardized  The source of syllabicity in syllabic consonants is always a vowel, either directly, when a vowel changes into a consonant (consonantalization), or else indirectly, when a vowel is lost and its syllabicity is transferred to a consonant (syllabic syncope).
 Keywords  syllable, vowel, syllabic, consonant, syncope
 Domain  phonology
 Type  unconditional
 Status  diachronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  85 language sample in Bell 1978
 Source  Bell 1978: 167-8

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Discussion
Notes
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.
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 language sample of 182.
The present sample given above is a part of this larger one.