Universal 943:
- Original
- A merger of oral vowels always presupposes the merger of the corresponding nasal vowels if they exist.
- Standardized
- IF there is a merger of oral vowels, THEN there is a merger of the corresponding nasal vowels if they exist.
- Keywords
- oral, vowel, nasal, consonant
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- implication
- Status
- diachronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- languages in Greenberg 1966b
- Source
- Greenberg 1966b: 514, based on Ferguson 1963
- Counterexamples
“presupposes” = “implies”?