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Universal 754:

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Universal 754:

Original
For injectives, …, the bilabial is clearly the favoured point of articulation.
Standardized
IF an obstruent is injective, THEN it will most likely be bilabial.
Keywords
consonant, injective, obstruent, bilabial
Domain
phonology
Type
implication
Status
achronic
Quality
statistical
Basis
150 phonological descriptions examined by Greenberg 1970
Source
Greenberg 1970: 128
Counterexamples

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  1. FP
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    1. May 2020

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