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Universal 2026:
- Original
- voiceless geminate stops should be preferred over voiced ones, due to aerodynamic concerns.
- Standardized
- IF there are voiced word-initial geminate stops, THEN there are also voiceless word-initial geminate stops.
- Keywords
- consonant, geminate, voice
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- over two dozen lgs reported to have word-initial geminates, listed in Appendix
- Source
- Muller 2001: 205 (crediting the original claim to Jaeger 1978)
- Counterexamples
