Universal 1852:
- Original
- The nonlateral has a noncentralizing or backing effect on a neighboring vowel.
- Standardized
- When a vowel is adjacent to a nonlateral, it will be centralized or backed.
- Keywords
- liquid, nonlateral, centralization, back, vowel
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- no genuine implication; rather: provided that
- Status
- unclear whether diachronic and/or achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- languages in Bhat 1974
- Source
- Bhat 1974: 78
- Counterexamples