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Universal 779: affricate stop ⇒ three plain stops
- Original
- If a language has an affricated stop, it is most likely that it also has (at least) three plain stops.
- Standardized
- IF there is an affricated stop, THEN there is most likely to be at least three plain stops.
- Keywords
- affricate, stop
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- 317 language sample from Nartey 1979
- Source
- Nartey 1979: 18, cited also in Lass 1984: 153
- Counterexamples
- Washkuk=Kuoma (Middle Sepik, Papuan), Wichita (Caddoan), Zuni (isolate), Swahili, Beembe (both Bantu, Niger-Congo) (Nartey 1979: 19)Eastern and Western Popoloc (Oto-Manguean) (Yasugi 1995: 66)
