Universal 212: vocalic opposition ⇒ consonantal opposition
- Original
- IF a language has a vocalic opposition, THEN it has a consonantal opposition.
- Standardized
- IF there is a vocalic opposition, THEN there is a consonantal opposition.
- Keywords
- vocalic, consonantal, opposition
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic but presumably diachronically motivated
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- languages mentioned in Jakobson 1941
- Source
- Jakobson 1941: 79
- Counterexamples
1. Explicitly stated as a universal acquisitional sequence, but can be assumed to be intended also as a universal implication. 2. See discussion in Hawkins (1987).