Universal 1715: Original Higher Order Law:All syllabic complexities are less disfavoured in stressed syllables than in unstressed syllables. Standardized Higher Order Law:All syllabic complexities are…
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Universal 1715: Original Higher Order Law:All syllabic complexities are less disfavoured in stressed syllables than in unstressed syllables. Standardized Higher Order Law:All syllabic complexities are…
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Universal 1714: Original General Syllabication Law:A syllabication is the more preferred: (a) the better the resulting syllable contact is and (b) the better that syllable…
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Universal 1713: Original Quality of Contact Embedding:A syllable contact A$B is the better embedded, the more attractive the rhyme of the first syllable would be…
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Universal 1712: Original The Attractiveness of Bodies:A body is the more attractive: (a) the more heavily its syllable is accented relative to the preceding syllable,…
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Universal 1711: Original Lutz’s Law:Heterosyllabication of an internuclear cluster is the more preferred, the more attractive the rhyme of that syllable is which would remain…
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Universal 1710: Original The Attractiveness of Rhymes: A rhyme is the more attractive: (a) the more heavily its syllable is accented relative to the following…
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Universal 1709: Original The Contact Law:A syllable contact A$B is the more preferred, the less the Consonantal Strength of the offset A and the greater…
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Universal 1708: Original The Strength Assimilation Law:If Consonantal Strength is assimilated in a syllable contact, the Consonantal Strength of the stronger speech sound decreases. Standardized…
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Universal 1707: Original The Law of Finals:Word-medial syllable codas are the more preferred, the less they differ from possible word-final syllable codas of the language…
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Universal 1706: Original The Law of Initials:Word-medial syllable heads are the more preferred, the less they differ from possible word-initial syllable heads of the language…