Universal 696:
- Original
- Standardized
- IF there are more than four vowels, THEN / ε / and generally also / C / will be among them.
- Keywords
- vowel
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute?
- Basis
- sample of 209 languages in Crothers 1978
- Source
- Crothers 1978: 135, cited in Holenstein 1985: 125
- Counterexamples
