Universal #1097
Legacy number: 1097
| Number | 1093 |
| Original | If there is a contrast in glottal feature, length, or other secondary articulation, then that feature is also contrastive in the oral stop system (but not necessarily the fricative system). |
| Standardized | IF there is a contrast in glottal feature, length, or other secondary articulation, THEN that feature is also contrastive in the oral stop system (but not necessarily the fricative system). |
| Keywords | glottal, oral, stop |
| Domain | phonology |
| Type | implication |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute |
| Basis | sample of 106 languages in Crothers 1975 |
| Source | Crothers 1975: 158 |
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