Universal #850

Legacy number: 850

 Number  847
 Original  In final clusters the presence of at least one combination of stop + stop implies the presence of at least one combination of fricative + stop.
 Standardized  In final clusters, IF there is at least one combination of stop + stop, THEN there is at least one combination of fricative + stop.
 Keywords  consonant cluster, final, stop, fricative, phoneme order
 Domain  phonology
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  sample of 104 languages in Greenberg 1964
 Source  Greenberg 1964 [Greenberg 1965: 15, Greenberg 1978e: 254, #8]

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