Universal #844
Legacy number: 844
| Number | 841 |
| Original | In all initial and final clusters, if there are sequences of length m and n and m >n, then the proportion of clusters of length m which only occur with internal morpheme boundaries is equal or greater than the proportion of such clusters which occur of length n. |
| Standardized | In all initial and final clusters, IF there are consonant clusters of length m and n and m > n, THEN the proportion of clusters of length m which only occur with internal morpheme boundaries is equal or greater than the proportion of such sequences which occur of length n. |
| Keywords | consonant cluster, length |
| Domain | phonology |
| Type | no genuine implication; rather: provided that |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute |
| Basis | sample of 104 languages in Greenberg 1964 |
| Source | Greenberg 1964 [Greenberg 1965: 12, Greenberg 1978e: 251, #4] |
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