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Universal 1004:

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Universal 1004:

Original
An utterance boundary is necessarily also a word boundary (but not necessarily the reverse), i.e. if a word cannot begin with a glottal stop, then an utterance cannot begin with a glottal stop.
Standardized
IF a phoneme cannot occur at a word boundary, THEN it cannot occur at an utterance boundary either.
Keywords
word boundary
Domain
phonology
Type
implication
Status
achronic
Quality
absolute
Basis
languages in Hyman 1978
Source
Hyman 1978: 452
Counterexamples

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    1. May 2020

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