Universal 1820: Original Standardized IF there is a labialized voiceless uvular stop, THEN there is a labialized voiceless velar stop. Keywords stop, labial, uvular, velar,…
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Universal 1820: Original Standardized IF there is a labialized voiceless uvular stop, THEN there is a labialized voiceless velar stop. Keywords stop, labial, uvular, velar,…
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Universal 1836: Original Standardized IF there is a voiceless alveolar lateral ejective affricate, THEN there is also a voiceless alveolar sibilant ejective affricate. Keywords affricate,…
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Universal 1852: Original The nonlateral has a noncentralizing or backing effect on a neighboring vowel. Standardized When a vowel is adjacent to a nonlateral, it…
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Universal 1868: Original The most striking – and apparently universal – variability is in what can be called “degree of babyishness”. Changes in the degree…
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Universal 1884: Original A split between 1st and 2nd person versus 3rd person marking is more likely with the verbal category assertive than with the…
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Universal 1900: Original A pronominal form used for showing greater respect or social distance is never eliminated from the system of reference in favour of…
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Universal 1916: Original It seems likely that no polysynthetic language has, within its system of pronominal affixes, a set of contrasts large enough to make…
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Universal 1932: indefinite other than negative indefinite is borrowed ⇒ negative indefinite is borrowed Original If there is a word-form loan of other than negative…
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Universal 1948: Original Class IIIa and Class Ib predicates cooccur in a language. Standardized IF non-canonical marking with Class IIIa predicates, THEN also non-canonical marking…
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Universal 1964: Original all languages exhibit the following property: if clusters of n Cs are possible syllable-initially, then clusters of n-1 Cs are also possible…