Universal 218: mellow fricative ⇒ strident fricative
- Original
- Standardized
- IF there are mellow fricatives, THEN there are corresponding strident fricatives.
- Keywords
- mellow, strident, fricative
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic but presumably diachronically motivated
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- languages mentioned in Jakobson 1941
- Source
- Jakobson 1941: 90
- 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).