Universal 1760: ##_V ⇒ V_V, V#_V, V_#V ⇒ V_#C, V_##, V_C#(#), VC_##
- Original
- Environmental hierarchy of consonantal weakening:
initial ⇒ > intervocalic ⇒ final.
If there is consonantal deletion in initial position, then there will be consonantal deletion in intervocalic position.
If there is consonantal deletion in intervocalic position, then there will be consonantal deletion in final position. - Standardized
- IF there is consonantal deletion in initial position, THEN there will be consonantal deletion in intervocalic position.
IF there is consonantal deletion in intervocalic position, THEN there will be consonantal deletion in final position. - Keywords
- consonant, weakening, initial, intervocalic, final, hierarchy
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- implicational hierarchy
- Status
- diachronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- Romance and Germanic languages
- Source
- Escure 1977: 58
- Counterexamples
