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

Vowel use will be more common in warm climate languages than cold climate languages (126).

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Comparison of percentages	Supported	p<.01	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Climate	Independent	Climate
Vowel Use	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.	1999	Within language families, consonant-vowel syllable use will be positively associated with warm climate (43, 49).	Partially supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Munroe, Robert L.	2009	Sonorant consonant use will more common in warm climate languages than cold climate languages (126).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Munroe, Robert L.	2018	Cold-climate societies, in contrast to warm climate societies, will have higher functional use of owls.	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Everett, Caleb	2017	Ambient humidity will be positively associated with vowel utilization.	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author