Universal 1240:
- Original
- If a language’s only final margins are stops, then they are glottal stops.
- Standardized
- IF stops are the only final word margin, THEN they will be glottal stops.
- Keywords
- word boundary
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- no genuine implication; rather: provided that
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- sample of 144 languages in Bell 1971
- Source
- Bell 1971: 51
- Counterexamples