Universal #1008
Legacy number: 1008
| Number | 1004 |
| Original | An utterance boundary is necessarily also a word boundary (but not necessarily the reverse), i.e. if a word cannot begin with a glottal stop, then an utterance cannot begin with a glottal stop. |
| Standardized | IF a phoneme cannot occur at a word boundary, THEN it cannot occur at an utterance boundary either. |
| Keywords | word boundary |
| Domain | phonology |
| Type | implication |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute |
| Basis | languages in Hyman 1978 |
| Source | Hyman 1978: 452 |
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