Universal 469:
- Original
- If a language has long consonants, it has long consonants in intervocalic position.
- Standardized
- IF long consonants occur in non-intervocalic position, THEN they will occur in intervocalic position.
- Keywords
- phonotactics, geminate, intervocalic position
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- languages mentioned in Thurgood 1993
- Source
- Thurgood 1993: 131
- Counterexamples
