Rhythmicity or sonority: response to ember and ember's "cross-language predictors of consonant-vowel syllables"

Strong sonority in the speech signal will be associated with warmer climates (846).

Baby-holding, literacy, and number of syllables per word were not significantly related to composite syllabic sonority scores in this model.

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
multiple regression	Supported	p<.001	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Climate	Independent	Climate
Consonant-vowel Syllable	Dependent	Speech, Vocabulary, Phonology

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Munroe, Robert L.	1996	The number of consonant-vowel syllables will be positively associated with temperature (60, 64).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Munroe, Robert L.	1996	The number of consonant-vowel syllables will be negatively associated with written language (61, 65).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ember, Melvin	2000	Controlling for climate and literacy, baby-holding will be a significant predictor of consonant-vowel score (736).	Supported	4	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ember, Melvin	2000	Mean number of syllables per word will be negatively associated with consonant-vowel score (736).	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ember, Melvin	2000	There will be a positive relationship between the degree of baby holding and CV score (732).	`UNKNOWN`	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author