Universal #857
Legacy number: 857
| Number | 854 |
| Original | In final clusterss a voiced stop is only followed immediately by a stop differing only in being unvoiced if there is a morpheme boundary between them. |
| Standardized | In final clusters, an voiced stop can only be immediately followed by its counterpart if there is a morpheme boundary between them. |
| Keywords | consonant cluster, final, stop, voice |
| Domain | phonology |
| Type | unconditional |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute |
| Basis | sample of 104 languages in Greenberg 1964 |
| Source | Greenberg 1964 [Greenberg 1965: 17, Greenberg 1978e: 257, #12] |
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