Universal 1236:
- Original
- If a language has initial or final clusters, then it also has medial clusters.
- Standardized
- IF there are initial or final clusters, THEN there will be medial clusters as well.
- Keywords
- consonant cluster
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- sample of 144 languages in Bell 1971
- Source
- Bell 1971: 41
- Counterexamples