Universal #1786

Legacy number: 1786

 Number  1781
 Original  If a language has stop + fricative onset clusters, then it has stop + stop onset clusters.
 Standardized  IF there are stop + fricative onset clusters, THEN there are stop + stop onset clusters.
 Keywords  consonant cluster, initial, fricative, stop
 Domain  phonology
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  survey of 25 languages
 Source  Morelli 1998: ???

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Discussion
Notes
1. 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).2. For universals complementary to this one, cf. ##848, 849.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. 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).

2. For universals complementary to this one, cf. <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=848"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">, <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=849"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">.