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Revisiting population size vs. phoneme inventory size

In this discussion note we argue against the findings presented in Hay & Bauer 2007, which show a positive correlation between population size and phoneme inventory size. We argue that the positive correlation is an artifact of the authors' statistical technique and biased data set. Using a...

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Published in:	Language (Baltimore) 2012-12, Vol.88 (4), p.877-893
Main Authors:	Moran, Steven, McCloy, Daniel, Wright, Richard
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