Universal 929: syllabic stops V syllabic affricates ⇒ syllabic fricatives
- Original
- If a language contains syllabic stops or affricates, it contains syllabic fricatives.
- Standardized
- IF there are syllabic stops or affricates, THEN there are syllabic fricatives.
- Keywords
- stop, affricate, fricative, syllabic, consonant
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- 85 language sample in Bell 1978
- Source
- Bell 1978: 182
- Counterexamples
A preliminary version of this paper appeared in Working Papers on Language Universals 4, November 1970, which contained a language sample of 182.The present sample given above is a part of this larger one.