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1. May 2020
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Universal 955:

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Universal 955:

Original
In languages with both dissolvable and non-dissolvable medial clusters, the former will be significantly more frequent than the latter.
Standardized
IF there are both dissolvable and non-dissolvable medial clusters, THEN the former will be significantly more frequent than the latter.
Keywords
phonotactics, consonant cluster
Domain
phonology
Type
no genuine implication; rather: provided that
Status
achronic
Quality
statistical
Basis
unspecified
Source
Saporta 1963: 67
Counterexamples
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    A dissolvable cluster is defined as a sequence whose first part occurs in final position and whose second part occurs in initial position.Is supposed to illustrate “the general principle of economy whereby the presence of the complex pattern implies the presence of the more simple one”.

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