Universal 1078:
- Original
- In languages with distinctive aspiration, when aspiration is phonemic, it is often more marked than when it is merely allophonic.
- Standardized
- In languages with distinctive aspiration, when aspiration is phonemic, it is often more marked than when it is merely allophonic.
- Keywords
- aspiration, stop
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- languages in Devine 1974
- Source
- Devine 1974: 6
- Counterexamples
E.g. Karen (Sino-Tibetan) (cf. Jones 1961).