Universal 938: Original In most languages, low vowels are longer than high vowels, all things being equal.(see also IPA) Standardized Low vowels tend to be…
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Universal 938: Original In most languages, low vowels are longer than high vowels, all things being equal.(see also IPA) Standardized Low vowels tend to be…
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Universal 954: Original If verbs of material transfer (giving and taking) and/or verbs of commanding exhibit anomalies with respect to the syntagmatic differentiation of objects,…
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Universal 970: Original If there are analogical changes in their inflectional paradigms, long morphemes (stems and affixes) or words are more likely replace short or…
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Universal 986: locative comparative ⇒ absolute simultaneous deranking & total identity deletion Original Languages with a locative comparative are languages with absolute simultaneous deranking and…
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Universal 1002: Original Voluntary metatheses imply non-phonological causes. Standardized If a metathesis is synchronically regular, THEN it is not phonologically conditioned. Keywords metathesis Domain phonology,…
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Universal 1018: Original If a language has a parts-of speech system of types 1-2/3, then it has predicate-initial or predicate-final basic word order. Standardized IF…
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Universal 1034: Original Morphemically simple words must have one main stress. Standardized Morphemically simple words must have one main stress. Keywords stress, accent Domain prosodic…
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Universal 1050: Original If there is agreement within NPs, there is, almost certainly, also agreement within clauses. Standardized IF there is agreement within NPs, THEN…
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Universal 1066: Original Syllables tend to weaken more after stress than before stress. Standardized IF syllables tend to weaken before stress, THEN they also weaken…
Universal 1082: anaphoric island, pronominal reference Original If pronominal reference inside certain anaphoric islands, then also outside. Standardized If pronominal reference can reach into certain…