Universal 1001:
- Original
- Front vowels predominantly correspond to diminutive and associated categories.
- Standardized
- Front vowels predominantly correspond to diminutive and associated categories.
- Keywords
- iconicity
- Domain
- phonology, semantics
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- 136 language sample of Ultan 1978d
- Source
- Ultan 1978d: 554
- Counterexamples
Ultan’s sample is weighted in favour of American Indian languages (48).