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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