Universal 492:

Original: When a yes-no question is differentiated from the corresponding assertion by an intonational pattern, the distinctive intonational features of each of these patterns are reckoned from the end of the sentence rather than from the beginning.
Standardized: When a yes-no question is differentiated from the corresponding assertion by an intonational pattern, the distinctive intonational features of each of these patterns are reckoned from the end of the sentence rather than from the beginning.
Keywords: sentence type, interrogative, yes-no question, intonation
Domain: syntax, prosodic phonology
Type: no genuine implication; rather: provided that
Status: achronic
Quality: absolute
Basis: 30 languages of Greenberg 1963 sample
Source: Greenberg 1963: 81, #8

Counterexamples: Western Desert (Pama-Nyungan), which was not in Greenberg’s sample and Finnish (Finnic, Uralic), which was (Joseph 1992: 31).

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