Universal 1705: Original The Weight Law (aka Stressed Syllables Law or Prokosch’s Law):In stress accent languages an accented syllable is the more preferred, the closer…
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Universal 1705: Original The Weight Law (aka Stressed Syllables Law or Prokosch’s Law):In stress accent languages an accented syllable is the more preferred, the closer…
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Universal 1704: Original It follows from the Head Law () that a syllable will be the more preferred, the greater the Consonantal Strength of its…
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Universal 1703: Original It follows from the Coda and Nucleus Laws (, ) that a syllable will be the more preferred, the less the Consonantal…
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Universal 1702: Original The Nucleus Law:A nucleus is the more preferred: (a) the steadier its speech sound, and (b) the less the Consonantal Strength of…
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Universal 1701: Original The Coda Law:A syllable coda is the more preferred: (a) the smaller the number of speech sounds in the coda, (b) the…
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Universal 1700: Original The Head Law:A syllable head is the more preferred: (a) the closer the number of speech sounds in the head is to…
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Universal 1699: Original The Syllabic Tone Law (conjectured):Non-level tones (chromatic accents) on short vowels — or more generally on syllables of less than two voiced…
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Universal 1698: Original The Rhyme Law (conjectured):There must be degrees of preference for combinations of nuclei with codas. For instance, offgliding nuclear speech sounds often…
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Universal 1697: Original The Body Law (conjectured):There must be degrees of preference for combinations of nuclei with heads. For instance, ongliding nuclear speech sounds often…
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Universal 1696: Original The Shell Law:In general, a shell seems to be the more preferred, the less similar the head and (the mirror image of)…