Universal 390: aspirated consonant precedes an unstressed vowel ⇒ aspir. consonant precedes a secondary stressed vowel ⇒ aspirated consonant precedes a primary stressed vowel;

Universal 390: aspirated consonant precedes an unstressed vowel ⇒ aspir. consonant precedes a secondary stressed vowel ⇒ aspirated consonant precedes a primary stressed vowel;

Original

Aspirated consonants occur more often preceding a primary stressed vowel than a secondary one and occur more frequently preceding a secondary stressed vowel than an unstressed one.

Standardized

IF an aspirated consonant occurs preceding an unstressed vowel, THEN it also occurs preceding a secondary stressed vowel.
IF an aspirated consonant occurs preceding a secondary stressed vowel, THEN it also occurs preceding a primary stressed one.

Keywords

/h/, consonant, vowel, aspiration, primary, stress, secondary, unstressed

Domain

prosodic phonology

Type

implication

Status

achronic

Quality

statistical

Basis

languages in Hurch 1988

Source

Hurch 1988: 64

Counterexamples