Universal 1238:
- Original
- No language has uniform V.CCV division of two-segment clusters if it has final consonants.
- Standardized
- IF there are final consonants, THEN there is no uniform V.CCV division of two-segment clusters.
- Keywords
- syllable structure, consonant cluster
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- sample of 144 languages in Bell 1971
- Source
- Bell 1971: 46
- Counterexamples
