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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