Climate and the consonant-vowel (CV) syllable: a replication within language families

Cross-Cultural Research Vol/Iss. 33 Published In Pages: 43-62
By Munroe, Robert L., Silander, Megan

Hypothesis

Words "used primarily in writing are likely to display lower CV values than words that are used mostly for oral communication" (52).

Note

Data was examined in the family of Indo-European languages.

Test

Test NameSupportSignificanceCoefficientTail
UNKNOWNNot SupportedUNKNOWNUNKNOWNUNKNOWN

Variables

Variable NameVariable Type OCM Term(s)
Cv SyllableUNKNOWNSpeech, Vocabulary, Phonology
WritingUNKNOWNWriting