Phoneme inventory size and population size
Phoneme inventory size and population size
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DOI：
10.1353/lan.2007.0071
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发表时间：
2007-06-01
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影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Bauer, Laurie
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作者：
Hay, Jennifer;Bauer, Laurie
这份简短的报告调查了人口规模和音素库存规模之间的关系，并发现两者之间存在令人惊讶的强大相关性。一种语言的使用者越多，其音素库存可能就越大。我们证明这对于元音库存和辅音库存都成立。它不是语系的产物。*
This short report investigates the relationship between population size and phoneme inventory size, and finds a surprisingly robust correlation between the two. The more speakers a language has, the bigger its phoneme inventory is likely to be. We show that this holds for both vowel inventories and consonant inventories. It is not an artifact of language family.*