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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