Universal #471
Legacy number: 471
| Number | 469 |
| Original | If a language has long consonants, it has long consonants in intervocalic position. |
| Standardized | IF long consonants occur in non-intervocalic position, THEN they will occur in intervocalic position. |
| Keywords | phonotactics, geminate, intervocalic position |
| Domain | phonology |
| Type | implication |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute |
| Basis | languages mentioned in Thurgood 1993 |
| Source | Thurgood 1993: 131 |
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