Universal #757

Legacy number: 757

 Number  754
 Original  For injectives, ..., the bilabial is clearly the favoured point of articulation.
 Standardized  IF an obstruent is injective, THEN it will most likely be bilabial.
 Keywords  consonant, injective, obstruent, bilabial
 Domain  phonology
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  150 phonological descriptions examined by Greenberg 1970
 Source  Greenberg 1970: 128

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