Month: May 2020

Universal 1035: Original When stress is phonologically predictable and limited to certain syllables (i.e., does not always fall on the same syllable), the potentially stressable…

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…

Universal 1033: Original When stress is phonologically predictable and automatic (i.e., always on the same syllable), it may only fall on initial, final, or penultimate…

Universal 1032: Original Morphemically simple phonological words never have more than one main stress. Standardized Morphemically simple phonological words never have more than one main…

Universal 1031: Original The climactic poles of the three accentual features tend to correlate with each other. Thus, e.g., where stress is predictable from vowel…

Universal 1030: Original Only the intense pole – loud stress, high pitch and length – ever has the accentual property. There is no language in…

Universal 1029: Original It is these three features – stress, tone and length (with the possible addition of … glottalization) – which function accentually and…

Universal 1028: OV ⇔ tensedness ⇔ casedness ⇔ AND-construction ⇔ absolute converb Original There are correlations between following parameters:OV word order, Tensedness, Casedness, AND-Construction, Absolute…

Universal 1027: VO ⇔ non-tensedness ⇔ non-casedness ⇔ WITH-construction ⇔ non-absolute converb Original There are correlations between following parameters:VO word order, Non-tensedness, Non-casedness, WITH-Construction, Non-Absolute…

Universal 1026: Original Languages with dominant order VSO and parts-of-speech system of types 1-3/4 always have the adjective after the noun. Standardized IF there is…