Universal #1244

Legacy number: 1244

 Number  1240
 Original  If a language’s only final margins are stops, then they are glottal stops.
 Standardized  IF stops are the only final word margin, THEN they will be glottal stops.
 Keywords  word boundary
 Domain  phonology
 Type  no genuine implication; rather: provided that
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  sample of 144 languages in Bell 1971
 Source  Bell 1971: 51

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