Universal #1785

Legacy number: 1785

 Number  1780
 Original  If a language has fricative + stop onset clusters, then it has stop + fricative onset clusters.
 Standardized  IF there are fricative + stop onset clusters, THEN there are stop + fricative onset clusters.
 Keywords  consonant cluster, initial, fricative, stop
 Domain  phonology
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  survey of 25 languages in Morelli 1988
 Source  Morelli 1998: ???

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Discussion
Notes
Morelli defines an affricate as: a single unit with two value specifications for the feature [+continuant], rather than a combination of two distinctive segments (like Greenberg 1978).
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Morelli defines an affricate as: a single unit with two value specifications for the feature [+continuant], rather than a combination of two distinctive segments (like Greenberg 1978).