Universal 1039:
- Original
- Root accent is systematically favoured over inflectional accent.
- Standardized
- Root accent is systematically favoured over inflectional accent.
- Keywords
- root, affix, accent
- Domain
- phonology, morphology
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- sample of almost 200 languages in Greenberg & Kaschube 1976
- Source
- Greenberg & Kaschube 1976: 13
- Counterexamples
Accent = phonetic features occurring just once or at most once in the phonological word, with cumulative or demarcative function (Greenberg & Kaschube 1976).