Universal #811
Legacy number: 811
| Number | 808 |
| Original | In the linguistic systems of the world, fricatives cannot exist unless stops exist as well. |
| Standardized | IF there are fricatives, THEN there will be stops. |
| Formula | fricative ⇒ stop |
| Keywords | fricative, stop |
| Domain | phonology |
| Type | implication |
| Status | achronic but presumably diachronically motivated |
| Quality | absolute |
| Basis | languages mentioned in Jakobson 1941 |
| Source | Jakobson 1941: 51, Jakobson 1958 [1971]: 526 |
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