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Universal 854:
- Original
- In final clusterss a voiced stop is only followed immediately by a stop differing only in being unvoiced if there is a morpheme boundary between them.
- Standardized
- In final clusters, an voiced stop can only be immediately followed by its counterpart if there is a morpheme boundary between them.
- Keywords
- consonant cluster, final, stop, voice
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- sample of 104 languages in Greenberg 1964
- Source
- Greenberg 1964 [Greenberg 1965: 17, Greenberg 1978e: 257, #12]
- Counterexamples
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