Warm climates and sonority classes: not simply more vowels and fewer consonants
Cross-Cultural Research • Vol/Iss. 43 • Published In • Pages: 123-133 •
By Munroe, Robert L., Fought, John G., Macaulay, Ronald K.S.
Hypothesis
Obstruent use will be more common in cold climate languages than warm climate languages (126).
Test Name | Support | Significance | Coefficient | Tail |
---|---|---|---|---|
Comparison of percentages | Supported | p<.01 | UNKNOWN | UNKNOWN |