Universal 767:
- Original
- If a language has only one primary fricative its primary allophone is most likely to be /s/.
- Standardized
- IF there is only one primary fricative, THEN its primary allophone is most likely to be /s/.
- Keywords
- fricative, sibilant
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- no genuine implication; rather: provided that
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- 317 language sample from Nartey 1979
- Source
- Nartey 1979: 4, cited also in Lass 1984: 154
- Counterexamples