Universal #218

Legacy number: 218

 Number  218
 Original  <img src="../img/graphics/218.gif" alt="">

 Standardized  IF there are mellow fricatives, THEN there are corresponding strident fricatives.
 Formula  mellow fricative ⇒ strident fricative
 Keywords  mellow, strident, fricative
 Domain  phonology
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic but presumably diachronically motivated
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  languages mentioned in Jakobson 1941
 Source  Jakobson 1941: 90

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Discussion
Notes
1. Explicitly stated as a universal acquisitional sequence, but can be assumed to be intended also as a universal implication. 2. See discussion in Hawkins (1987).
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. Explicitly stated as a universal acquisitional sequence, but can be assumed to be intended also as a universal implication.
2. See discussion in Hawkins 1987.