Universal 808: fricative ⇒ stop
- Original
- In the linguistic systems of the world, fricatives cannot exist unless stops exist as well.
- Standardized
- IF there are fricatives, THEN there will be stops.
- Keywords
- fricative, stop
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic but presumably diachronically motivated
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- languages mentioned in Jakobson 1941
- Source
- Jakobson 1941: 51, Jakobson 1958 [1971]: 526
- Counterexamples
