Universal #837
Legacy number: 837
| Number | 834 |
| Original | Languages with two or more r-types are unlikely to restrict the contrast to place alone. |
| Standardized | In languages with more than two r-types, IF there are any other contrasts between them, THEN there will also be a contrast of place; and If there is a contrast of place, THEN there is very likely also some other contrast. |
| Keywords | /r/ |
| Domain | phonology |
| Type | implication |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | statistical |
| Basis | sample of 321 languages by Maddieson 1980 |
| Source | Lass 1984: 158, taken from survey by Maddieson 1980 |
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