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Universal 283: palatovelar ⇒ dental

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Universal 283: palatovelar ⇒ dental

Original
It is apparently a universal fact, then, that palatoalveolar sounds develop in child language only after dental sounds.
Standardized
IF there are palatoalveolar consonants, THEN there are dental consonants.
Keywords
consonant, palatoalveolar, dental
Domain
phonology
Type
implication
Status
achronic but presumably diachronically motivated
Quality
absolute?
Basis
languages mentioned in Jakobson 1941
Source
Jakobson 1941: 47
Counterexamples

One Comment

  1. FP
    FP

    1. Explicitly stated as a universal acquisitional sequence, but can be assumed to be intended also as a universal implication. 2. See discussion in Hawkins (1987).

    1. May 2020

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