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Universal 1421:

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Universal 1421:

Original
There is a tendency for languages having nasalized vowels to show more asymmetry than languages having long vowels.
Standardized
There is a tendency for languages having nasalized vowels to show more asymmetry than languages having long vowels.
Keywords
nasal, length, vowel
Domain
phonology
Type
unconditional
Status
achronic
Quality
statistical
Basis
survey of 92 native Middle American languages in Yasugi 1995
Source
Yasugi 1995: 74-5
Counterexamples

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  1. FP
    FP
    1. May 2020

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