Month: May 2020

Universal 805: Original The opposition of a stop and an affricate in the languages of the world implies the presence of a fricative in the…

Universal 804: Vh ⇒ hV; orpostvocalic aspiration ⇒ prevocalic aspiration Original The sequence hV occurs more often than Vh. Standardized IF there is postvocalic aspiration…

Universal 803: /h/ precedes unstressed syllable ⇒ /h/ precedes secondary stressed syllable ⇒ /h/ precedes primary stressed syllable Original /h/ precedes primary stressed syllables more…

Universal 802: back consonant ⇒ front consonant Original No language has back consonants without containing front consonants. Standardized IF there are back consonants, THEN there…

Universal 801: complex morphology ⇔ noun classes Original Languages that have a complex morphological structure are more likely to show systems of noun classes. Standardized…

Universal 800: isolating ⇒ classifiersagglutinative v flexive ⇒ classes Original Languages that tend towards isolating (such as most of those in east and south-east Asia)…

Universal 799: non-tensedness ⇔ verby adjectives Original The Tensedness Universals of Adjective Encoding:B. If a language is non-tensed, it will have verby adjectives. If a…

Universal 798: tensedness ⇔ nouny adjectives Original The Tensedness Universals of Adjective Encoding:A. If a language is tensed, it will have nouny adjectives. If a…

Universal 797:

Universal 796: voiced obstruent ⇒ unvoiced obstruent Original The presence of a voiced obstruent in a given language is most likely to imply the presence…