Universal #950

Legacy number: 950

 Number  947
 Original  If either inflectional morphology or derivational morphology is served by prosodic rules of stress shift, then typically either new phonological rules emerge or old phonological rules are put to new uses, or both.
 Standardized  IF either inflectional morphology or derivational morphology is served by prosodic rules of stress shift, then typically either new phonological rules emerge or old phonological rules are put to new uses, or both.
 Keywords  stress
 Domain  phonology, word formation, inflection
 Type  no genuine implication; rather: provided that
 Status  diachronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  unspecified
 Source  Dressler 1979: 265

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