Universal 1785: Original The shorter a linguistic expression is, the more likely it is will be associated with familiarity and high frequency of occurrence.The longer…
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Universal 1785: Original The shorter a linguistic expression is, the more likely it is will be associated with familiarity and high frequency of occurrence.The longer…
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Universal 1784: Original The Particle Strategy: The more short, particle-like words a sentence contains, the more likely it is to be classified as belonging to…
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Universal 1783: Original The Length Strategy: The longer a sentence is, the more likely it is to be classified as belonging to a more formal…
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Universal 1782: Original If a language has fricative + stop onset clusters, then it has fricative + fricative onset clusters. Standardized IF there are fricative…
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Universal 1781: Original If a language has stop + fricative onset clusters, then it has stop + stop onset clusters. Standardized IF there are stop…
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Universal 1780: Original If a language has fricative + stop onset clusters, then it has stop + fricative onset clusters. Standardized IF there are fricative…
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Universal 1779: Original If there is a voiced affricate reflex, then there will also be a voicless affricate reflex, i.e.dz → z ⇒ ts →…
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Universal 1778: Original If assibilation occurs before a , then it must occur before e.If assibilation occurs before e, then it must occur before i.…
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Universal 1777: Original If there is assibilation of labials, then there must be assibilation of dentals.If there is assibilation of dentals, then there must be…
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Universal 1776: Original Universal Inequality Condition:(A) e → Ø / _#; (B) o → Ø / _#; (C) a → Ø / _#; 1. If…