Evidence for direct geographic influences on linguistic sounds: the case of ejectives

High elevations will be predictive of ejective phoneme ubiquity in a language cluster.

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Fisher’s exact test	Supported	p<.001	`UNKNOWN`	Two-tailed

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Ejective Phoneme Ubiquity	`UNKNOWN`	Phonology
Proximity To High Elevation	`UNKNOWN`	Location, Climate

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Hay, Jennifer	2007	Language family and population size both predict phoneme inventory size.	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
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
Moran, Steven	2012	Higher population sizes are correlated with a higher number of phonemes in a language.	Not supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Moran, Steven	2012	Higher population sizes are correlated with a higher number of consonants in a language.	Not supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Moran, Steven	2012	Higher population sizes are correlated with a higher number of vowels in a language.	Not supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author