Universal 1241:
- Original
- No language without initial clusters has V.CCV division of two-segment clusters.
- Standardized
- IF there are no initial consonantal clusters, THEN there is no V.CCCV division of two-segment clusters.
- Keywords
- syllable structure, consonantal cluster
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- sample of 144 languages in Bell 1971
- Source
- Bell 1971: 45
- Counterexamples
Bell 1971: 45 states that is only a conjecture.