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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