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Universal 879:

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Universal 879:

Original
A language which has any affricates includes among them at least one in the dental-alveolar or alveo-palatal region.
Standardized
IF there are affricates, THEN there is at least one in the dental-alveolar of alveo-palatal region.
Keywords
consonant cluster, initial, dental, alveolar, alveo-palatal
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, #40]
Counterexamples

One Comment

  1. FP
    FP

    implicational version:IF there are affricates other than dental-alveolar or alveo-palatal ones, THEN there are affricates in the dental-alveolar of alveo-palatal region.

    1. May 2020

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