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Universal 947:

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Universal 947:

Original
If either inflectional morphology or derivational morphology is served by prosodic rules of stress shift, then typically either new phonological rules emerge or old phonological rules are put to new uses, or both.
Standardized
IF either inflectional morphology or derivational morphology is served by prosodic rules of stress shift, then typically either new phonological rules emerge or old phonological rules are put to new uses, or both.
Keywords
stress
Domain
phonology, word formation, inflection
Type
no genuine implication; rather: provided that
Status
diachronic
Quality
statistical
Basis
unspecified
Source
Dressler 1979: 265
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    1. May 2020

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