Implicational hierarchy: Difference between revisions

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A set of chained universals is schematically shown as in (1):

(1) '''A >< B >< C >< D'''

It can be reformulated in the following way: If a language has property D, then it also has properties A, B, and C; if a language has a property C, then it also has properties A and B, etc. In other words, the implicational hierarchy defines the possible combinations of properties A, B, C, and D as listed in matrix (2):

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respectively:

(3) '''/ n / >< / m / >< / ɲ /'''

This hierarchy defines the following possible combinations of dental/alveolar, bilabial, and palatal voiced nasals in