Mean Annual Temperature (mat)

Associated Documents (4)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Everett, CalebClimate, vocal folds, and tonal languages: connecting the physiological and geographic dots
Currie, Thomas E.The evolution of ethnolinguistic diversity
Maddieson, IanHuman language diversity and the acoustic adaptation hypothesis
Dow, Gregory K.The economics of exogamous marriage in small‐scale societies

Associated Hypotheses (5)

Main AuthorHypothesis
Everett, CalebAridity and/or frigidity of environment will be negatively predictive of rates of complex tonality in language areas.
Currie, Thomas E.Association between geographic language area and various environmental variables will be stronger among pastoralists and foragers than among agriculturalists (7).
Maddieson, IanRelative reliance on consonants vs. vowels in human languages cross-culturally will be associated with different environments (5).
Dow, Gregory K.Rate of exogamy will be positively associated with disparities in productivity between the two residence sites. (1807)
Dow, Gregory K.Rate of exogamy will be negatively associated with community size. (1807)

Associated OCMs

  1. climate