A Behavioural Correlate of Phonological Structure

Daniel Nettle

doi:10.1177/002383099403700406

A Behavioural Correlate of Phonological Structure

Daniel Nettle^*

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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
Pages (from-to)	425-429
Number of pages	5
Journal	Language and Speech
Volume	37
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/002383099403700406
Publication status	Published - Oct 1994
Externally published	Yes

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phonological structure
speech volume

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