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Revisiting population size vs. phoneme inventory size
(Linguistic Society of America, 2012-12)
In this paper 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 hierarchical mixed model to account for ...