Publication: Revisiting Population Size vs. Phoneme Inventory Size
Revisiting Population Size vs. Phoneme Inventory Size
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Moran, S., McCloy, D., & Wright, R. (2012). Revisiting Population Size vs. Phoneme Inventory Size. Language, 88, 877–893. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2012.0087
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In this discussion note we argue against the findings presented in Hay & Bauer 2007, which show a positive correlation between population size and phoneme inventory size. We argue that the positive correlation is an artifact of the authors’ statistical technique and biased data set. Using a hierarchical mixed model to account for genealogical relatedness of languages, and a much larger and more diverse sample of the world’s languages, we find little support for population size as an explanatory predictor of phoneme inventory size once
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- Moran, Steven
- McCloy, Daniel
- Wright, Richard
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Moran, S., McCloy, D., & Wright, R. (2012). Revisiting Population Size vs. Phoneme Inventory Size. Language, 88, 877–893. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2012.0087
