Month: May 2020

Universal 1835: Original Standardized IF there is a voiceless velar nasal, THEN there is also a voiceless bilabial nasal. Keywords nasal, velar, bilabial, voice Domain…

Universal 1834: Original Standardized IF there is a voiceless dental-alveolar nasal, THEN there is also a voiceless bilabial nasal. Keywords nasal, dental-alveolar, bilabial, voice Domain…

Universal 1833: Original Standardized IF there is a voiceless palatal approximant, THEN there is also a voiceless labial-velar approximant. Keywords approximant, palatal, labial-velar, voice Domain…

Universal 1832: Original Standardized IF there is a breathy voiced bilabial stop, THEN there is also a breathy voiced velar stop. Keywords stop, bilabial, velar,…

Universal 1831: Original Standardized IF there is a laryngealized voiced labial-velar approximant, THEN there is also a glottal stop. Keywords stop, approximant, labial-velar, glottal, laryngeal,…

Universal 1830: Original Standardized IF there is a laryngealized voiced palatal approximant, THEN there is also a glottal stop. Keywords stop, approximant, palatal, glottal, laryngeal,…

Universal 1829: Original Standardized IF there is a prenasalized labialized voiced velar stop, THEN there is also a prenasalized voiced bilabial stop. Keywords stop, velar,…

Universal 1828: Original Standardized IF there is a prenasalized labialized voiced velar stop, THEN there is also a prenasalized voiced velar stop. Keywords stop, velar,…

Universal 1827: Original If a language shows the order RelNoun or AdjNoun in its noun phrase, it is very likely to also show PossNoun, but…

Universal 1826: Original If a language is an SOV language, then nominalizations are the most likely to show the ModifierNoun syntactic pattern, other possessives are…