Universal 857: Original In initial and final clusters a lateral is never followed immediately by an r-type sound. In the initial system the sequence r…
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Universal 857: Original In initial and final clusters a lateral is never followed immediately by an r-type sound. In the initial system the sequence r…
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Universal 873: Original If a language has at least one cluster containing n glottalized consonants, it has at least one cluster with n – 1…
Universal 889: OV ⇒ suffixes;VO ⇒ prefixes Original OV languages tend to have suffixes and VO languages prefixes. Standardized IF the word order is OV,…
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Universal 905: Original Allomorphy cannot be conditioned across (grammatical) word boundaries. Standardized Allomorphy cannot be conditioned across (grammatical) word boundaries. Keywords allomorphy Domain morphology Type…
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Universal 921: Original Standardized IF the voiced stop /g/ is absent from the velar group, THEN the corresponding voiced fricative /©/ must be present. IF…
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Universal 937: Original No language has nasal vowels unless it also has one or more primary nasal consonants. Standardized IF there are nasal vowels, THEN…
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Universal 953: Original If direct and indirect/non-direct objects differ in their morphological coding (at least minimally), then they will also differ in their syntactic behaviour…
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Universal 969: Original If there are analogical changes in their inflectional paradigms, then the number of synonymous morphemes (stems and affixes) is more likely to…
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Universal 985: allative comparative ⇒ absolute posterior consecutive deranking & total identity deletion Original Languages with an allative comparative are languages with absolute posterior consecutive…
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Universal 1001: Original Front vowels predominantly correspond to diminutive and associated categories. Standardized Front vowels predominantly correspond to diminutive and associated categories. Keywords iconicity Domain…