Universal 1408:
- Original
- The higher the number of principle phonemes, the higher the probability of redundancy.
- Standardized
- The higher the number of principle phonemes, the higher the probability of redundancy.
- Keywords
- phoneme, redundancy
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- Finno-Ugric languages
- Source
- Décsy 1970: 12
- Counterexamples
Principle phoneme: a phoneme which occurs “with an average more than two percent and belongs to the old stratum of the phoneme inventory.”Marginal phoneme: a phoneme which does not reach the limit of two percent. (Décsy 1970: 9).