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Universal 794:
- Original
- If a language has only one place of articulation for a given type of consonant it is most likely to be the alveo/dental region.
- Standardized
- IF there is only one place of articulation for a given type of consonant, THEN it is most likely to be the alveo/dental region.
- Keywords
- consonant, alveolar, dental
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- no genuine implication; rather: provided that
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- 317 language sample from Nartey 1979
- Source
- Nartey 1979: 36, cited also in Lass 1984: 154
- Counterexamples
- Maidu (Maiduan) (Nartey 1979: 36)