Universal 1258:
- Original
- Unstressed vowels are more likely to assimilate than stressed vowels.
- Standardized
- Unstressed vowels are more likely to assimilate than stressed vowels.
- Keywords
- assimilation, vowel harmony, stress
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic, diachronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- languages in Ultan 1973
- Source
- Ultan 1973: 47, mentoined in Bhat 1975: 33
- Counterexamples