Abstract
Data from a cross-cultural study of conversational behaviour were compared with the phonological inventories of the languages being spoken. There was a highly significant inverse relationship between the number of contrastive vowels and the average volume of native speakers' voices. It seems that different languages are not equally salient perceptually.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 425-429 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Language and Speech |
Volume | 37 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Oct 1994 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- phonological structure
- speech volume