Universal #1858

Legacy number: 1858

 Number  1853
 Original  The liquids tend to have a lateral quality while occurring in the neighborhood of (especially before) front vowels.
 Standardized  When a vowel is adjacent to a lateral, it will be fronted.
 Keywords  liquid, lateral, front, vowel
 Domain  phonology
 Type  no genuine implication; rather: provided that
 Status  unclear whether diachronic and/or achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  languages in Bhat 1974
 Source  Bhat 1974: 78

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