Societies of strangers do not speak less complex languages

Grammatical complexity of a language is predicted by the proportion of nonnative speakers.

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Spatiophylogenetic modeling using a Bayesian phylogenetic framework	Not Supported	95% CI	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Linguistic complexity - fusion	Dependent	Grammar, Linguistic Identification
Linguistic complexity - informativity	Dependent	Grammar, Linguistic Identification
Impact of the number of native speakers	Independent	Linguistic Identification
Proportion of nonnative speakers	Independent	Linguistic Identification
Number of linguistic neighbors	Independent	Maps, Linguistic Identification

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Hay, Jennifer	2007	Population size will be positively correlated with the number of obstruents, the number of sonorants, overall consonants, and overall phoneme inventory sizes.	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Shcherbakova, Olena	2023	Grammatical complexity is predicted by language phylogeny and spatial contiguity.	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Bromham, Lindell	2012	Languages with a smaller number of speakers had higher rates of loss of lexemes from basic vocabulary than did their larger sister languages (2100).	Some Support	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Greenhill, Simon J.	2018	The number of language speakers will predict the rate of word change in a language.	Partially Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Acerbi, Alberto	2017	Population size will have an influence on cultural complexity as measured by the number of animal and magic folk tales	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author