The most ambitious extension of Sievers's law was proposed by Franklin Edgerton (1885–1963) in a pair of articles in the journal "Language" ( and ). He argued that not only was the syllabicity of prevocalic consonants by context applicable to all six Indo-European sonorants (), it was applicable in all positions in the word. Thus a form like "sky" would have been pronounced like this only when it happened to follow a word ending with a short vowel. Everywhere else it would have had two syllables, . Edgerton also maintained that the phonotactic rules in question applied to sequences arising across morpheme boundaries, such as when the bahuvrīhi prefix occurred before a noun beginning with (e.g. "well-heroed", Vedic "suvīra-"). According to Edgerton, the word should have had two forms, depending on what immediately preceded it: and . This corollary he called the "converse" to Sievers's law, and is usually referred to as Edgerton's converse for short.