Month: May 2020

Universal 1075: Original If case, and especially genitive, is marked (enclitically) at the end of NPs, then word order is mainly SOV, NP Postposition, Genitive…

Universal 1074: Original Languages with strong tonic accent … will have rhythmic groupings with the strong syllable leading; languages with accent based on duration ……

Universal 1073: Original Syllabification across a word boundary may be less likely in a language with initial stress than in a language with final stress.…

Universal 1072: Original Where stress is demarcative (i.e., in languages with fixed stress), syllabification across word boundaries ought to be less likely than where stress…

Universal 1071: Original While a tone can be restricted in occurrence by an adjacent voiced vs. voiceless consonant, no stress language assigns stress on such…

Universal 1070: Original If in a language phonemic stress co-exists with phonemic quantity, one of the two elements is subordinate to the other, and three,…

Universal 1069: Original When stress is sensitive to syllable weight, the general case is that a short vowel in open syllable position shows a reluctance…

Universal 1068: Original If there is a contrast between light and heavy syllables, then there tends to be a contrast of consonant length. Standardized IF…

Universal 1067: Original If there is a contrast between light and heavy syllables, then there is a contrast of vowel length. Standardized IF there is…

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…