Universal 1330:
- Original
- Every phonological system contrasts phonemes that are typically stops with phonemes that are never stops.
- Standardized
- Every phonological system contrasts phonemes that are typically stops with phonemes that are never stops.
- Keywords
- stop, phoneme inventory
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- unspecified
- Source
- Hockett 1963: 26
- Counterexamples
By “phonemes that are never stops” Hockett 1963: 27 means: “phonemes that are stops in slow careful speech or in key environments, though they may be weakened or spirantized in some environments or in faster speech.”