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Universal 1245:

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Universal 1245:

Original
The complete elimination of a language’s initial vowels, whether by loss or by consonant problems, is less likely than the complete elimination of a language’s sequences of syllable nuclei.
Standardized
The complete elimination of a language’s initial vowels, whether by loss or by consonant problems, is less likely than the complete elimination of a language’s sequences of syllable nuclei.
Keywords
syllable structure, consonant, vowel
Domain
phonology
Type
unconditional
Status
statistical
Quality
diachronic
Basis
sample of 144 languages in Bell 1971
Source
Bell 1971: 96
Counterexamples

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  1. FP
    FP
    1. May 2020

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