Month: May 2020

Universal 925: Original Standardized If a language contains syllables with vowel nuclei of the form CmVCn and syllables with consonantal nuclei of the form Cm’C§Cn’,…

Universal 924: Original If in a given language, stressed syllabic consonants become non-syllabic or are lost, then nonstressed syllabic consonants have become nonsyllabic or have…

Universal 923: Original If in a given language, syllabic consonants are created by syncope in stressed syllables, then they have been created by stress in…

Universal 922: Original If in a given language a syllabic consonant occurs in the phonological context X in root morphemes, then it occurs also in…

Universal 921: Original Standardized IF the voiced stop /g/ is absent from the velar group, THEN the corresponding voiced fricative /©/ must be present. IF…

Universal 920: /p/ ⇒ /f/ Original The absence of the voiceless stop /p/ from the labial group presupposes the presence of the corresponding voiceless fricative…

Universal 919: /©/ ⇒ /x/ Original Standardized IF there is the voiced velar fricative phoneme /©/, THEN there will be the voiceless velar fricative phoneme…

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…

Universal 917: Original Consistent OV languages are consistently left-branching (placing phrasal constituents before nonphrasal ones) while consistent VO languages are consistently right-branching. Standardized IF OV…

Universal 916: Original As the number of contrastive segments in a language increases, the average length of a word will decrease. Standardized The more numerous…