Warm climates and sonority classes: not simply more vowels and fewer consonants

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

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Comparison of percentages	Supported	p<.001	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Climate	Independent	Climate
Sonorant Consonants	Dependent	Speech, Vocabulary, Phonology

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Munroe, Robert L.	2009	Obstruent use will be more common in cold climate languages than warm climate languages (126).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Munroe, Robert L.	2009	Vowel use will be more common in warm climate languages than cold climate languages (126).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Robbins, Michael C.	1972	". . . in societies in warm climates there is more indulgence of, and less anxiety induced in the socialization of aggression" (336)	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Munroe, Robert L.	2018	Cold-climate societies, in contrast to warm-climate societies, will have more valid ethnozoological owl knowledge than warm-climate societies.	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Fought, John G.	2004	Languages spoken in warmer climates will have a higher level of sonority than languages spoken in colder climates (28).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author