Universal #453

Legacy number: 453

 Number  452
 Original  Postaspirated consonants occur more frequently than pre-aspirated ones.
 Standardized  IF there are pre-aspirated consonants, THEN there are also postaspirated ones.
 Formula  pre-aspirated consonant ⇒ post-aspirated consonant;
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 Keywords  /h/, consonant, aspiration, postaspirated, pre-aspirated
 Domain  phonology
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  languages in Hurch 1988
 Source  Hurch 1988: 61

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Discussion
Notes
Good examples: Icelandic (Indo-European), Scottish Gaelic of the Hebrides (Indo-European), Hopi (Uto-Aztecan) (Hurch 1988).However, crosslinguistic frequency is not equivalent to implication.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Good examples: Icelandic (Indo-European), Scottish Gaelic of the Hebrides (Indo-European), Hopi (Uto-Aztecan) (Hurch 1988).

However, crosslinguistic frequency is not equivalent to implication.