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Universal 878:
- Original
- Every language with initial clusters contains at least one cluster with an initial consonant in the dental-alveolar region.
- Standardized
- IF there are initial consonant clusters, THEN there is at least one cluster with an initial consonant in the dental-alveolar region.
- Keywords
- consonant cluster, initial, dental, alveolar
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- no genuine implication; rather: provided that
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- sample of 104 languages in Greenberg 1964
- Source
- Greenberg 1964 [Greenberg 1965: 28, Greenberg 1978c: 269, #39]
- Counterexamples
easy to redo implicationally