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
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.