Universal #860
Legacy number: 860
| Number | 857 |
| Original | In initial and final clusters a lateral is never followed immediately by an r-type sound. In the initial system the sequence r + lateral only occurs with morpheme boundary. |
| Standardized | In initial and final consonant clusters, IF one member is a lateral, THEN an r-type sound will never immediately follow (without morpheme boundary). |
| Keywords | consonant cluster, initial, final, lateral |
| Domain | phonology |
| Type | implication |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute |
| Basis | sample of 104 languages in Greenberg 1964 |
| Source | Greenberg 1964 [Greenberg 1965: 18, Greenberg 1978e: 257, #15] |
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