Universal 776: /h/ ⇒ primary fricative Original A language is very unlikely to have /h/ unless it also has a primary fricative. Standardized IF there…
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Universal 792: secondary nasal consonant ⇒ primary nasal consonant Original No language has Secondary Nasal Consonants unless it has one or more Primary Nasal Consonants.…
Universal 808: fricative ⇒ stop Original In the linguistic systems of the world, fricatives cannot exist unless stops exist as well. Standardized IF there are…
Universal 824: initial relative pronoun (RelCl) ⇒ ¬personal pronoun of the same NP
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Universal 824: initial relative pronoun (RelCl) ⇒ ¬personal pronoun of the same NP Original If a relative clause contains an initial relative pronoun, it does…
Universal 840:
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Universal 840: Original Every initial of final sequence of length m contains at least one continuous subsequence of length m – 1. Standardized IF there…
Universal 856:
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Universal 856: Original No combination of a voiced and glottalized consonant is found in either initial or final clusters. Standardized A voiced and glottalized consonant…
Universal 872:
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Universal 872: Original In initial and final clusters, an unvoiced sonant is never immediately preceded or followed by another unvoiced sonant. Standardized In initial and…
Universal 888: O V ⇒ moraic-counting;V O ⇒ syllable counting Original OV languages are often mora-counting, and VO languages are syllable-counting. Standardized IF basic order…
Universal 904:
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Universal 904: Original If noun phrases take case marking when occurring in core relations governed by verbs and other lexical expressions, they will also do…
Universal 920: /p/ ⇒ /f/
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Universal 920: /p/ ⇒ /f/ Original The absence of the voiceless stop /p/ from the labial group presupposes the presence of the corresponding voiceless fricative…