Universal 854: Original In final clusterss a voiced stop is only followed immediately by a stop differing only in being unvoiced if there is a…
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Universal 854: Original In final clusterss a voiced stop is only followed immediately by a stop differing only in being unvoiced if there is a…
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Universal 870: Original In initial clusters, the existence of at least one sequence consisting of voiced obstruent + semivowel implies the existence of at least…
Universal 886: back unrounded vowel ⇒ front unrounded vowel Original A back unrounded vowel implies a front unrounded vowel at the same tongue height. Standardized…
Universal 902: omnisyllabic tone ⇒ monosyllabic morphemes Original There appears to be a necessary connection between omnisyllabic tone and monosyllabic morphemes. Standardized IF tone is…
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Universal 918: /f/ ⇒ /w-v/ Original The presence of the voiceless labial fricative phoneme /f/ in a system presupposes the simultaneous presence of the voiced…
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Universal 934: Original Only high vowels undergo consonantalization. Standardized IF a vowel undergoes consonantalization, THEN it must be a high one. Keywords vowel, consonantalization, syllabic,…
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Universal 950: Original If direct and indirect/non-direct objects are distinguished in their coding, then they also differ in their syntactic behaviour (but not necessarily the…
Universal 966: O V ⇒ N PluralWord;V O ⇒ PluralWord N Original Plural words tend to follow the noun in OV languages and precede in…
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Universal 982: locative comparative ⇒ ¬ SVO; orlocative comparative ⇒ SOV v VSO Original If a language has a locative comparative, then it is either…
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Universal 2008: Original … lowering of a back nasal vowel implies lowering of the corresponding front nasal vowel. Standardized IF a back nasal vowel is…