Universal 1854:
- Original
- Languages tend to have laterals after grave consonants and nonlaterals after acute.
- Standardized
- Languages tend to have laterals after grave consonants and nonlaterals after acute.
- Keywords
- liquid, lateral, acute, grave, consonant, vowel
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- no genuine implication; rather: provided that
- Status
- diachronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- languages in Bhat 1974
- Source
- Bhat 1974: 80
- Counterexamples
