Month: May 2020

Universal 1255: Original The less sonorous a vowel (or class of vowels), the more prone it will be to assimilate; and conversely, the more sonorous…

Universal 1254: Original Labiovelar stops are less likely to participate in consonant gradation than other stops of the same series. Standardized Labiovelar stops are less…

Universal 1253: Original Anterior consonants are less likely to participate in consonant gradation than posterior consonants. Standardized Anterior consonants are less likely to participate in…

Universal 1252: Original Front consonants are less prone to develop in accordance with consonant gradation than back consonants. Standardized Front consonants are less prone to…

Universal 1251: Original When consonant gradation plays a role in the grammar, it serves the function to identify nouns. Standardized IF consonant gradation plays a…

Universal 1250: Original Sonants tend to participate in consonant gradation much more than other phonemes. Standardized Sonants tend to participate in consonant gradation much more…

Universal 1249: Original Hierarchy of consonants that have the greatest tone-raising or tone-lowering effect: implosive > voiceless aspirated > voiceless unaspirated > sonant > voiced…

Universal 1248: multiplication ⇒ addition Original The existence of multiplication implies the existence of addition. Standardized In numeral systems, IF there is multiplication, THEN there…

Universal 1247: Original If tone spreading takes place from a mid tone into a following low, then tone spreading also takes place from a high…

Universal 1246: Original … if syllables containing sequences of n consonants in a language are to be found as syllabic types, then sequences of n-1…