Universal #1082

Legacy number: 1082

 Number  1078
 Original  In languages with distinctive aspiration, when aspiration is phonemic, it is often more marked than when it is merely allophonic.
 Standardized  In languages with distinctive aspiration, when aspiration is phonemic, it is often more marked than when it is merely allophonic.
 Keywords  aspiration, stop
 Domain  phonology
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  languages in Devine 1974
 Source  Devine 1974: 6

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Discussion
Notes
E.g. Karen (Sino-Tibetan) (cf. Jones 1961).
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
E.g. Karen (Sino-Tibetan) (cf. Jones 1961).