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Universal 873:
- Original
- If a language has at least one cluster containing n glottalized consonants, it has at least one cluster with n – 1 glottalized consonants.
- Standardized
- IF there is at least one cluster containing n glottalized consonants, THEN there will be at least one cluster with n-1 glottalized consonants.
- Keywords
- consonant cluster, final, initial, glottalized
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- sample of 104 languages in Greenberg 1964
- Source
- Greenberg 1964 [Greenberg 1965: 25, Greenberg 1978e: 265, #32]
- Counterexamples
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