Month: May 2020

Universal 1965: Original The Compensatory Principle:The co-occurrence patterns of hetero-organic consonants across a vowel are such that if the first consonant is more sonorous than…

Universal 1964: Original all languages exhibit the following property: if clusters of n Cs are possible syllable-initially, then clusters of n-1 Cs are also possible…

Universal 1963: Original Stem: CV C Keywords phonotactics, sonority, stem, consonant cluster Domain phonology Type implicational hierarchy Status achronic Quality absolute? Basis impressions Source Butskhrikidze…

Universal 1962: Original Within lexical morphemes of the shape C1VC2V, the sonority of C1 tends to be less than that of C2, with C1 tending…

Universal 1961: Original Vowel co-occurrence displays an associative tendency.Consonant co-occurrence displays a dissociative tendency. Standardized Within words (or also relevant other domains, such as stems),…

Universal 1960: Original [???] CHECK! Standardized IF a sequence of consonants (possibly only consisting of one) occurs in a consonant cluster of n members, THEN…

Universal 1959: Original … languages have special restrictions for the word-initial and word-final positions that are not valid for every syllable onset and coda, respectively.…

Universal 1958: Original If a language has the basic word-form stem+suffix, the accent will fall on a non-final syllable. If a language has the basic…

Universal 1957: Original … the hypothesis that a language which has CiCj clusters will also have CiCj stems … Standardized IF there are consonant clusters…

Universal 1956: Original In isolierenden Sprachen werden alle Wurzeln gleichwertig behandelt. Man kann es der Wurzel nicht einmal ansehen, ob sie nominalen oder verbalen Charakter…