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Universal 855:

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Universal 855:

Original
No succession of consonants only differing in that one is unvoiced and the other is glottalized occurs in initial or final clusters unless there is a morpheme boundary between them.
Standardized
In final or initial clusters, a voiced consonant and its glottalized counterpart can only be adjacent if there is a morpheme boundary between them.
Keywords
consonant clusters, initial, final, voice, glottalized
Domain
phonology
Type
no genuine implication; rather: provided that
Status
achronic
Quality
absolute
Basis
sample of 104 languages in Greenberg 1964
Source
Greenberg 1964 [Greenberg 1965: 17, Greenberg 1978e: 257, #13]
Counterexamples

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  1. FP
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    1. May 2020

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