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 Name | Support | Significance | Coefficient | Tail |
---|---|---|---|---|
Comparison of percentages | Supported | p<.001 | UNKNOWN | UNKNOWN |
Variable Name | Variable Type | OCM Term(s) |
---|---|---|
Climate | Independent | Climate |
Sonorant Consonants | Dependent | Speech, Vocabulary, Phonology |