Month: May 2020

Universal 1865: Original Baby talk has shorter sentences, fewer subordinate clauses, fewer grammatical relations, more repetitions than normal adult-to-adult speech, often omits inflections and function…

Universal 1864: Original There is a “tone of voice” appropriate for talking to young children:(i) overall higher pitch and/or exaggerated intonation contours;(ii) slower speech tempo.…

Universal 1863: Original “… wesshalb die Verdoppelung vorzüglich bei Adjectiven statt findet, da bei der Eigenschaft das besonders auffällt, daß sie nicht als einzelner Körper,…

Universal 1862: Original The acute/grave opposition of compact nasal consonants implies an identical opposition of compact oral stops. Standardized IF there is a acute/grave opposition…

Universal 1861: Original Vowel Height Parameter: The development of some or all of the distinctive nasal processes occur preferentially in the context of low vowels…

Universal 1860: Original The liquids tend to become devoiced in the final and also in the initial position. They further become spirantized especially in the…

Universal 1859: Original The alveolar and retroflex stops generally tend to become taps and flaps intervocalically. Standardized The alveolar and retroflex stops generally tend to…

Universal 1858: Original A retroflexed flap (out-flap) and also other retroflexed consonants have a retroflexing or centralizing influence on a preceding rather than following segment.…

Universal 1857: Original A trill is found to occur in a stressed position, to denote emphasis, or in slow speech. As against this, a flap…

Universal 1856: Original The consonantality of a neighboring sound has the effect of changing a nontrill (flap or tap) into a trill whereas a neighboring…