Universal 124:
- Original
- IF there are aspirated stops (especially voiceless labial and alveolar), THEN there is /h/.
- Standardized
- IF there are aspirated stops (especially voiceless labial and alveolar), THEN there is /h/.
- Keywords
- aspiration, stop
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- languages in Hagège 1982
- Source
- Hagège 1982: 936
- Counterexamples
Cf. Jakobson’s claim (#1893): Languages with a voicing and an aspiration opposition have a phoneme /h/.