Universal #937

Legacy number: 937

 Number  934
 Original  Only high vowels undergo consonantalization.
 Standardized  IF a vowel undergoes consonantalization, THEN it must be a high one.
 Keywords  vowel, consonantalization, syllabic, consonant
 Domain  phonology
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic but presumably diachronically motivated
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  85 language sample in Bell 1978
 Source  Bell 1978: 168

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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.