Universal #405

Legacy number: 405

 Number  404
 Original  Aspirated non-continuous obstruents occur more frequently than aspirated continuous ones.
 Standardized  IF there are aspirated continuous obstruents, THEN there are also aspirated non-continuous obstruents.
 Formula  C [+obst, +cont]h ⇒ C [+obst, -cont]h; or
aspirated continuous obstruents ⇒ aspirated non-continuous obstruents
 Keywords  /h/, obstruent, continuous, non-continuous, aspiration
 Domain  phonology
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  languages in Hurch 1988
 Source  Hurch 1988: 64

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Discussion
Notes
Good examples: Icelandic (Indo-European), Scottish Gaelic of the Hebrides (Indo-European), Sevillian Spanish (Indo-European), Burmese (Burmic, Sino-Tibetan)(Hurch 1988).However, crosslinguistic frequency need not perforce translate into an implication.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Good examples: Icelandic (Indo-European), Scottish Gaelic of the Hebrides (Indo-European), Sevillian Spanish (Indo-European), Burmese (Burmic, Sino-Tibetan) (Hurch 1988).

However, crosslinguistic frequency need not perforce translate into an implication.