Universal 812: distributive stress ⇒ ¬ reduced vowel

Universal 812: distributive stress ⇒ ¬ reduced vowel

Original

Languages with distributive stress have no reduced vowels.

Standardized

IF there is distributive stress, THEN there are no reduced vowels.

Keywords

stress, distributive, vowel, reduced

Domain

prosodic phonology

Type

implication

Status

achronic

Quality

almost absolute

Basis

unspecified

Source

Décsy 1987: 50

Counterexamples

Uralic: Yurak (Samoyed), Mordvin (Finnic)