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universal tendency

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meanings of universaland tendency


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universal
adjective
uk /ˌjuː.nɪˈvɜː.səl/ us /ˌjuː.nəˈvɝː.səl/
existing everywhere or ...
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tendency
noun[C]
uk /ˈten.dən.si/ us /ˈten.dən.si/
If someone has a tendency to do or like something, they will probably do it or ...
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Examples of universal tendency


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Likewise, there is a universaltendency to favour obstruent onsets.
For example, there is a universaltendency to favour sonorant codas.
The intonation used in a number of different question types and unfinished utterances is treated in some detail and related to the reported universaltendency for such utterances to rise.
The universaltendency for each successive cohort at each duration is upward, and there is no sign of levelling off.
In this sense, a universaltendency toward accommodation would seem to be part and parcel of the identity-formation process.
In particular, there is a universaltendency for new information to occur towards the end of utterances and for given information to occur towards the beginning.
Incidentally, that almost universaltendency has a devastating effect on politics today.
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In fact, one of the serious complications has been an almost universaltendency for firms to overstate their requirements.
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First, outside of contact situations, there is no substratum with which universal tendencies might converge.
These findings support the existence of universal tendencies in cross-linguistic phonological acquisition.
Such a combination of numerically weighted universal tendencies in a single probabilistic generalization is put forward as the main theoretical contribution of the volume.
It is conceivable that none of the theories discussed so far account for both the universal tendencies and the languagespecific patterns that have been found.
Further cross-linguistic research on children's phonological acquisition is needed, focusing on both the identification of universal tendencies and the influence of the ambient language.
We can capture both the universal tendencies and the language-particular realization of alternative scopes in the following manner.
There are clear universal tendencies.
In a pidginization situation with typologically very distinct languages, one would expect the mutual linguistic accommodation to be less successful and the dependence on universal tendencies to be greater.
The issue of the interaction of transfer and universal tendencies is discussed in more detail in the last section of this paper.
This deviation from the adult pattern suggests that they are forming analyses of their own as part of a rule-learning process, not conforming to universal tendencies.
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