Universal #1095
Legacy number: 1095
| Number | 1091 |
| Original | If there are X stop and affricate positions, then the number of nasal positions will not exceed X. |
| Standardized | IF there are n stop and affricate positions, THEN there will not be more than n nasal positions. |
| Keywords | nasal, oral, stop, affricate |
| Domain | phonology |
| Type | implication |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | statistical |
| Basis | sample of 106 languages in Crothers 1975 |
| Source | Crothers 1975: 157 |
Discussion
Counterexamples
/m/ but no labial stop: Aleut (Eskimo-Aleut), Fijian (Remote Oceanic, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian), Chasta-Costa, Hupa (Athabaskan) (Trubetskoy 1969);nasal palatal but no palatal stop or affricate: French (Indo-European), Diegueño (Hokan), Hopi (Uto-Aztecan), Javanese (Sundic, Western Malayo-Polynesian), Chamorro (Chamorro, Western Malayo-Polynesian); possibly Maori (Remote Oceanic, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian) which has some discrepancy in position between /n/ and /t/.
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