Universal 925:
- Original
- Standardized
- If a language contains syllables with vowel nuclei of the form CmVCn and syllables with consonantal nuclei of the form Cm’C§Cn’, then m’ ≤ m, and n’ ≤ n.
- Keywords
- syllable, nucleus, vowel, syllabic, consonant
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- no genuine implication; rather: provided that
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- 85 language sample in Bell 1978
- Source
- Bell 1978: 163
- Counterexamples
1. A preliminary version of this paper appeared in Working Papers on Language Universals 4, November 1970, which contained a language sample of 182.The present sample given above is a part of this larger one.2. The notation Xn means a string of X’s of any length less than or equal to n, including zero.