Universal 938:
- Original
- In most languages, low vowels are longer than high vowels, all things being equal.
(see also IPA) - Standardized
- Low vowels tend to be longer than high vowels, all things being equal.
- Keywords
- vowel, low, high, length
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- ?
- Source
- Lehiste 1970, cited in Keating 1985: 118
- Counterexamples
