Revisiting population size vs. phoneme inventory size
Language • Vol/Iss. 88(4) • Linguistic Society of America • • Published In • Pages: 877-893 •
By Moran, Steven, McCloy, Daniel, Wright, Richard
Hypothesis
Higher population sizes are correlated with a higher number of obstruent consonants in a language.
Test Name | Support | Significance | Coefficient | Tail |
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Hierarchical Mixed-Effects Model | Not supported | p>.05 | effect size = .0088 | UNKNOWN |
Variable Name | Variable Type | OCM Term(s) |
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Population Size | Independent | Population |
Number of obstruent consonants | Dependent | Phonology |