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Universal 1782:

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Universal 1782:

Original
If a language has fricative + stop onset clusters, then it has fricative + fricative onset clusters.
Standardized
IF there are fricative + stop onset clusters, THEN there are fricative + fricative onset clusters.
Keywords
consonant cluster, initial, fricative, stop
Domain
phonology
Type
implication
Status
achronic
Quality
absolute
Basis
survey of 25 languages
Source
Morelli 1998: ???
Counterexamples

One Comment

  1. FP
    FP

    1. Morelli defines an affricate as: a single unit with two value specifications for the feature [+continuant], rather than a combination of two distinctive segments (like Greenberg 1978).2. For a universal complementary to this one, cf. #852.

    1. May 2020

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