Category: Universals Archive

Universal 1761: Original Hierarchy of major-class and manner features in the context of consonantal weakening: Ø < glides < liquids < nasals < +v fricatives…

Universal 1777: Original If there is assibilation of labials, then there must be assibilation of dentals.If there is assibilation of dentals, then there must be…

Universal 1793: Original N-deletion is preferred preceding fricatives rather than stops. Standardized IF there is nasal deletion preceding stops, THEN there is nasal deletion preceding…

Universal 1809: Original Standardized IF there is a voiced palatal stop, THEN there is a voiced bilabial stop. Keywords stop, palatal, bilabial, voice Domain phonology…

Universal 1825: Original Standardized IF there is a nasalized high back rounded vowel, THEN there is a high front unrounded vowel. Keywords vowel, nasal, high,…

Universal 1841: Original Standardized IF there is a palatalized voiceless dental-alveolar stop, THEN there is also a voiceless dental-alveolar stop. Keywords stop, dental-alveolar, palatalized, voice…

Universal 1857: Original A trill is found to occur in a stressed position, to denote emphasis, or in slow speech. As against this, a flap…

Universal 1873: Original Implicational patterns in the cross-linguistic coding of subordination:(a) If there is elimination of Aspect, then there is elimination of Tense and Mood.(b)…

Universal 1889: Original The relation of the retroflex to the dental consonants proves to be a mere variety of the opposition of pharyngealized and non-pharyngealized…

Universal 1905: Original Languages with syntactic relations usually use diathesis changes (voices) that promote and /or demote NPs in the clause, while languages without syntactic…