Universal 1242:
- Original
- The likelihood of initial clusters is greater for languages with final consonants than for languages without final consonants, even greater for languages with final clusters.
The likelihood for final clustering is greater for languages with initial clusters than for languages without.
- Standardized
- The likelihood of initial clusters is greater for languages with final consonants than for languages without final consonants, even greater for languages with final clusters.
The likelihood for final clustering is greater for languages with initial clusters than for languages without.
- Keywords
- consonant cluster
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- sample of 144 languages in Bell 1971
- Source
- Bell 1971: 87-88
- Counterexamples
