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

Sonorant consonant use will more common in warm climate languages than cold climate languages (126).

Test

Test NameSupportSignificanceCoefficientTail
Comparison of percentagesSupportedp<.001UNKNOWNUNKNOWN

Variables

Variable NameVariable Type OCM Term(s)
ClimateIndependentClimate
Sonorant ConsonantsDependentSpeech, Vocabulary, Phonology